RE: If there is a creator, so what?
November 17, 2016 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 12:41 pm by Ignorant.)
(November 17, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 12:25 pm)Ignorant Wrote: The latter is closer, but not quite it. Everyone wants goodness, and god is goodness-itself. In particular things, we want what is good about them. What is good about them is the particular way in which they participate in goodness itself.
So is the definition of "God" "intrinsic goodness" to you?
No. God is the goodness in which things participate. The goodness of things will differ depending on the nature of that participation, which could be called a thing's "intrinsic goodness'. If that term is what you need to make sense of it, god is subsisting "intrinsic goodness"