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>>15375484
Augustine, then Aquinas, then Descartes and Leibniz

All systems of morality that arise solely and a priori of the material world are nonsensical. Ethical systems based upon virtue, deontology, or utility fall immediately fall apart and contradict themselves once they move away from the simplistic, hypothetical thought experiments upon which they are based. Furthermore, they arrive at wildly differing conclusions from a single origin. Consider, as an example, Kant's axe murderer and the vastly differing courses of action that each ethical system advises the homeowner to take. None of the aforementioned moralities can prove authority over the others, and so all are equally invalid.

Given this, but also considering the fact that the idea of moral existence is fixed in the minds of all men, one must therefore conclude that true morality exists but derives its source not within the universe, but without. Such a source, by its very nature, would be an entity that encompasses all possible goodness, and such a being all men know as God. Ergo, an action is moral if and only if it follows the will of God.