RE: My views on objective morality
March 13, 2016 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 12:45 pm by Mystic.)
(March 13, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 13, 2016 at 12:48 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: CL, you keep writing "we believe", all the while ignoring the fact that that is a direct admission of subjectivity influencing, and most likely shaping, your view on morality.
Well, it is what we believe, but that doesn't mean it can't be objectively true.
I think I addressed this earlier on in the post - I also believe my husband loves me. I could be either right or wrong about that.
You can be certain your husband loves you (I don't know if you are, but I mean you can be), but maybe uncertain the degree that he loves you.
Often when we say "this person doesn't love me" we are talking about particular type of love or level of love.
You cannot know the exact level your husband loves. How there maybe signs of it, that give you a good estimate. You can know for sure two extremes that the love falls within. That it cannot be under this point as well you know it's not over this point.
This is my view. Do you disagree?
Also if you believe in love, and love is the whole of the law (it is per verse 42:23 in Quran as well) per words of Jesus, then you cannot say that love is not part of nature.
Everything is taught to love in it's own way (all animals, insects, plants, even pebbles), the thing is we been taught all inclusive descent of love. The love we been entrusted with unites all types of love in creation.
Everything glorifies God with that love/praise they are created with which is created in truth with respect to vision of God of himself to creation.
That said, I don't think it's accurate to say there is no proof of love or it's nature in us. The moral aspect of love is manifest to me, it's beauty is so manifest, I know it's objectively beautiful. That objective beauty is a manifestation of God.
