RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 16, 2017 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2017 at 5:35 pm by Ignorant.)
(October 16, 2017 at 5:22 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If there's an inherent goodness to something than this must be, by definition, apart from god. [1] Something that's good in it;s own right is not good because of anything to do with a god. [2] Not by being created by a god, and not because of some whispy telos. You'd have to side with the first horn. [3]1) That isn't the definition of inherent.
2) See above.
3) If you are an intellectual heir of voluntarist/nominalist thought... then sure. But if there is a metaphysic/philosophical school of thought that has a coherent understanding by which participated being includes inherent properties by participation (surprise: there is at least one such school), then, poof, the dilemma disappears.
(October 16, 2017 at 5:32 pm)Hammy Wrote:(October 16, 2017 at 5:09 pm)Ignorant Wrote: Things are the way they are because god commands/creates that they be so.
Is that a premise?
In the sort of theism I subscribe to, sure?
