(August 31, 2012 at 9:06 am)Boccaccio Wrote: What are your moral objectives, stephen?
If you can identify that then you can measure the success of strategies toward those objectives using principles of utility and consequences, for example.
Meanwhile, where do you get your morality? From the bible? From god's commands?
If the bible, how do you determine what is true or literal, symbolic or false, or human error in the transcription?
If godly commands, by what means do you receive them?
Morals do not have objectives, they only prescribe what ought to be, so it is incorrect to anthropormorphisize them like this. Only beings can have 'objectives.'
At any rate, my morals are based on God’s revelation in Scripture. I have good reason to believe that Scripture is a revelation from God, that God’s commands to us supply our moral duties. Moral duties are rooted in the divine commands; values are rooted in God’s nature, therefore objective because they are rooted in God’s commands and nature.
So, in the spirit of the OP, where do you get your morals from?