(December 4, 2016 at 2:56 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 4, 2016 at 3:34 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Nah that's conflating moral ontology with moral epistemology.
Could you explain further? It seems to me that this is what Shelly is doing.
It's kind of like asking why 2 + 2 = 4 and not some other number. Did God "cause" 2 + 2 to equal 4, and if so, could God have caused 2 + 2 to equal some number other than 4, say, 5 or 6 or 1026? Perhaps instead of saying that such brute facts need a god to cause them to be true, why not just accept the existence of brute facts, even in the area of morality?
