@ Jeremy Taylor

Dang, I knew AKG was in bad shape, but he's worst than I thought. I warned him about sinking to such levels, but he never listened. Also, why Dr. Feser doesn't ban him? As far as I know, I don't think he's going to change any time soon, so I think its highly likely he will troll Dr. Feser's blog especially if politics or the T word are mentioned. He just goes on and on about that stuff all over social media. 

How is Mythicism becoming more popular? Mythicism is mostly popular on the internet, especially among New Atheists. Besides, whether the historical Jesus existed is a settled question in academia.

Check out the philosopher John Rist, especially his work Real Ethics. Also I would like to add my two cents.

"I think my current view, which I'm still developing, is that although the objectivity of morality is grounded in natures, independently from God, the *experience* we often have of good/evil is indicative of transcendence and divinity."

Hmmm, but aren't we contingent beings, so ultimately where do ground our natures? If that's the case then wouldn't the objectivity of morality be ontologically dependent on God (or a Platonic metaphysics)?


 

@ Miguel
Interesting thoughts, nevertheless, I will pitch in my two cents.
I think if one denies the PSR then such notion of gratuitous evil arises (Unsurprisingly, the atheist who denies the PSR comes up with this notion). Thus, I think that if one accepts a strong form of the PSR* then this notion of gratuitous evil is weakened or gone. 

*Of course, the non-believer can attack a strong form of the PSR by appealing to say modal collapse. However, personally, I'm not really convinced by such move because then we are bringing in brute facts into the picture or might as well give up philosophy and our basic rational intuitions.

Hmmm, good question, I too have been thinking about this. Perhaps we need a radical cultural transformation. What kind of "radical cultural transformation"? I'm not so sure, one can speculate.