RE: The Ultimate Value and the signs of it in ourselves.
January 13, 2016 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2016 at 11:35 am by bennyboy.)
I want to apologize for my previous comment. It was to the point, but not the best argument.
Let me say this about your argument about measurements. While there is some objective value, it's relative objective value, not absolute. If you had only a single star in the universe, what size would it be? Nothing, I think: infinitely large or infinitely small or both.
When we talk about subjective and objective, we are talking about conditions of relative truth. There is really no saying that something "is what it is" without establishing some framework or context by which it may be measure.
Anyway, you talk about how God infuses everything. If God is in everything, then how can you establish a non-infinite value? Can you say that a piece of pooh, which is also divinely infused, is less great than a galaxy? If yes, why? Is God more deeply infused in some things than others? I think that would be infidel talk. If no, then all is equivalent, and value is meaningless: One is God and God is one, and all is great etc. etc.
Let me say this about your argument about measurements. While there is some objective value, it's relative objective value, not absolute. If you had only a single star in the universe, what size would it be? Nothing, I think: infinitely large or infinitely small or both.
When we talk about subjective and objective, we are talking about conditions of relative truth. There is really no saying that something "is what it is" without establishing some framework or context by which it may be measure.
Anyway, you talk about how God infuses everything. If God is in everything, then how can you establish a non-infinite value? Can you say that a piece of pooh, which is also divinely infused, is less great than a galaxy? If yes, why? Is God more deeply infused in some things than others? I think that would be infidel talk. If no, then all is equivalent, and value is meaningless: One is God and God is one, and all is great etc. etc.
