Sublime

Your premises must measure up with respect to two counts, truth and strength.

The Christian philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), in fact, proposed an argument that was intended, in a very complicated and ingenious way, to transform this venerable philosophical intuition into something like a comprehensive philosophical proof, one that moved from the “unrestricted intelligibility” of reality to the reality of God as the

“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”