Moral Arguments from John Henry Newman to Austin Farrer

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The late nineteenth and on into the early twentieth centuries saw a unique concern to develop a Kantian-type Moral Argument, but along more empirical lines, by British and, later, American Idealist philosophers. This was initiated by the work of John Henry Newman and Henry Sidgwick. These were arguments based on inner experiences such as conscience and awareness of moral obligation. Thus, they share an epistemology that incorporates a subjective sensory experience of mental awareness that is corrigible and defeasible, and then conclude the existence of a personal moral authority as source.</jats:p>