RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 16, 2017 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2017 at 11:16 am by Whateverist.)
(October 16, 2017 at 11:03 am)Ignorant Wrote: I was trying to be as concise as possible.
God's "commanding" certain moral acts as good is no different than creating human agents AS human. It's like this:
If acting morally is the same thing as acting in ways that make you a GOOD human, then God "commanding" you to act morally is the same thing as saying that God "commands" you to act in ways that truly fulfill what he made you to be, i.e. human.
God "commands" that you be the best version of what-you-are. Only those acts which are morally good, by definition, can get you there. Creating you AS what-you-are is the same thing as creating you TO BE the best sort of what-you-are.
But there are many aspects to "acting human", some we call morally good, some bad. If no one else had a hand in our creation then isn't it correct to say that God commands the bad just as he commands the good?
Welcome back by the way.
