(October 17, 2017 at 10:36 am)Khemikal Wrote: A god can create a good thing. So can I. Neither of our relationships to those things are what makes them good, if the good is inherent to those things.
It's interesting that you even described this with "creative" language (i.e. what MAKES them). See if you follow me:
You determine to make a thing which, if it ever comes to-be, will have its own inherent goodness. Not-being-anything-at-all-yet, that thing is neither good nor inherently good (it is nothing).
Then, YOU fulfill the necessary conditions for actually causing that thing to-be AS having-its-own-inherent-goodness. Your fulfilling-of-those-conditions is what GIVES both the thing's-being AND the inherent goodness to the thing. That is to say, BOTH the thing itself and its inherent goodness DIRECTLY depend on your fulfilling-of-its-conditions for being-at-all.
Now, I suppose you would say that your relationship to the thing isn't related to what-makes-it-good? If so, I don't understand. Removing your relationship to the thing is the same thing as removing your fulfilling-of-its-conditions for being-at-all. Without you... it never becomes a thing at all.