RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 17, 2017 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2017 at 3:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 17, 2017 at 2:51 pm)Ignorant Wrote: Starting with #8) I AM NEITHER NOMINALIST NOR VOLUNTARIST. What makes you think that I am either?It's probably your waffling insistence on nominalist and voluntarist apologetics in an attempt to evade the dilemma, even as you insist you're from neither camp....huh?
Quote:That is not arbitrary definition. If (describing things as "good" because it directly relates to "goodness" in some way) is arbitrarily defining goodness, then I don't know what arbitrary means.If we determined what was good by whatever god created, or was in his nature to create, or yadda yadda yadda.... then whatever a god happens to create is by definition good. Option 2.
God could create an animal that skullfucks toddlers for fun, and that would be good.
-or he could create the oppositie of that..and -that- would be good.
This is the arbitrarity being referenced. Do you understand?
If, instead, you're defining the good by reference to goodness... not god, gods will, gods creative act, gods nature.... this is option 1. Not a third option, but you don;t like the consequences of that either..and so you prattle endlessly about what amounts to option 2.
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