Must Morality be Grounded on God?

Abstract

that kind of thing.” He was telling us, that is, that his moral code depends on does not say that he ought to do what he does, unless he can be construed to mean that what I like to do (or what I choose to do) is what I ought to do. But like ought not to do it.” Nor, of right to be helped if they are suffering or in trouble. On the contrary, he famously commented that such supposed rights are nonsense on stilts; that is, that the notion of a natural right is unintelligible. morality seems to be centred on the sense of the moral force of it—is intelligible, let alone useful.