RE: Evil
August 30, 2015 at 4:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2015 at 4:15 am by Mudhammam.)
(August 30, 2015 at 4:03 am)robvalue Wrote: The idea of "an objective morality" though is so ridiculous I don't know where to start. If such a thing existed somehow, it would be entirely pointless. I think people are simply stunned by the way we generally agree on certain moral principles, and think it must be magic, when there are perfectly valid scientific explanations.Why do you say it's ridiculous, rob? And how could it be pointless? If there is such a thing as objective truth, and I don't mean something like "the sun appears in the sky every day" but something more like, "What appears to me to be the object called the Sun exists in such and such manner irrespective of my conscious apprehension of it," and that as a statement of truth which subsists in some virtual fashion regardless of whether or not there exists intelligent beings to signify it in thought or speech - then why is the idea of objective goodness so revolting? I for one would say that knowledge of what is objectively true is objectively better than ignorance.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
