ABSTRACT
Intuitionism is compatible with a claim that religious texts can play an important role in guiding the moral life of believers as source of moral knowledge and motivation. There are religious ethicists who take the position that any theory of objective morality is a non-starter since our knowledge of reality is believed to be entirely mediated by language. Some join constructivists in believing the collapse of the distinction between fact and value and taking moral values as social constructs in coping with reality. Others simply avoid any talk of universal morality in preference for a tradition-dependent morality, based on the assumption that the search for objective morality is philosophically implausible. It is quite tempting to be persuaded by various objections to the possibility of objective morality. It is often alleged that foundationalism has been miserable philosophical failure, unable to fulfill the original aims set by Descartes.
