RE: My views on objective morality
March 13, 2016 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 4:15 pm by Mystic.)
(March 13, 2016 at 4:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:Not really, somehow God's knowledge of morality needs to be vested into us. He is the Good and the standard (WLC uses the word, God is the standard as well). Anyways, to explain the relationship between God and creation I agree is important, and how we have knowledge of morality through him is important, but don't you think such topic would be very deep and spiritually intense?(March 13, 2016 at 3:30 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't understand what you are saying. Is Christian and Jewish God not the source of morality? I think you should watch what William Lane Craig says on the false dichotomy of the Euthyphro Dilemma and the third option he presents.
I've read Craig on the Euthyphro dilemma. It's a dodge. He's saying that there is no how question so long as we just agree that it "just is." This ontological / epistemological distinction is just a smokescreen for not answering the question. Even if God "just is" the Good, that doesn't explain in what way the Good functions so it's just an empty utterance. It'd be like saying John "just is" a good person, even though you can't define what makes a person good. But you're the one enamored with Craig's explanation, why don't you explain to me how it makes the epistemological question irrelevant? And how that answers the Euthyphro dilemma? (How, mind you; not 'that'.)
As to how you've defined a passive God, you've claimed that God's being can have no influence over what is or is not objectively moral. That puts morals outside God, and he just becomes a bystander.
If you are up for such a book, perhaps you want to read Misbahal Hidayah by Imam Khomeini. It's been translated into English online.