Q&A: The Validity of Morality in an External Entity
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The Validity of Morality in an External Entity
Question
I understood that you argue that there is no morality without God. Why not say that morality itself exists in some spiritual book external to the world, in which the rules of morality are “written,” and the claim “x is moral” is evaluated according to whether the statement matches what is written in that book? And in order to discover what is written in the book, one can look inward to reason. Then there is no need for God.
Answer
The question is who wrote the book, and why it is binding.
For more detail, see the fourth notebook, part three.