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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Does Fear of God Ground Morality?
Description: https://youtu.be/oV-deDzZNH8?si=MbfQzzp1Qa6D4tLC
Podcast audio:
In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer responds to a PragerU video which argues that moral wisdom requires a “fear of God.” Bayer argues that a fear of God undercuts moral wisdom and is driven by a fear of the intellectual independence that moral wisdom requires.
Among the topics covered:
The proposal that a fear of God provides the basis for an objective morality;
How the fear of God makes objective moral guidance impossible;
Why being motivated by fear undercuts our love of moral wisdom and virt...