(June 15, 2011 at 12:57 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: OK, that aside, I don't see how acknowledging subjective morality concedes anything to the theist. Does the theist think that God makes morality any less subjective?
My interpretation of the comment (he seemed to be pro-atheist) was that by strictly defining good as subjective, they were giving away the greater part of the potential definition of good.
(June 15, 2011 at 12:57 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: If GodWillIt* because it's good, then morality exists outside of God and good would still be good without God.
If things are good because GodWillsIt, then this is not objective morality by definition. This is a being, however wise or powerful, who makes up rules.
I like where you're going with this last; almost an inversion of the problem of evil being answered by free will. An idealist reading would then have all ethics subjective, just some exist in a bigger mind!
