RE: What is 'objective' value?
January 13, 2016 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2016 at 8:45 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 13, 2016 at 4:31 pm)Kingpin Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Any shared moral or value system, between any given number of moral/valuing agents, transcends those moral/valuing agents individually. There is literally -infinite- possibility for a transcendent source apart of a god in the general, or the judeo-christian god in specific. It's hard to find an example of -any- moral or value system that does not meet this criteria of transcendence.
How would those qualify as transcendent when the "system" is derived by human subjective opinion?
Hope you don't mind my playing devil's advocate with you a bit. The only requirement for something to be transcendent is that it is beyond the normal reach of the purely physical. So for example, the physical universe, may be contingent upon universal principles that are not of themselves intelligent. So in theory, someone could be an atheist but still believe in things that transcend physical reality and its laws. Yet so very few want to, probably because from there it's only a few short steps to God.
