RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 17, 2017 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2017 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Ham
-and that's the crux of it. People who do not understand the dilemma, quite unsurprisingly, find themselves thinking that they've somehow evaded it even as they affirm one horn or another as an article of faith.
Responding to conclusions of arbitrarity arising from the second horn they insist "It's not arbitrary, it's grounded in -god's something-!"
That is the arbitrarity being criticized.
-and that's the crux of it. People who do not understand the dilemma, quite unsurprisingly, find themselves thinking that they've somehow evaded it even as they affirm one horn or another as an article of faith.
Responding to conclusions of arbitrarity arising from the second horn they insist "It's not arbitrary, it's grounded in -god's something-!"
That is the arbitrarity being criticized.
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