(October 17, 2017 at 3:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If you say so, but the consequence is that whatever god did or was would be goodness. Option 2. [1]
If god did a, goodness [2]
If god did the negation of a, goodness. [3]
How delightfully arbitrary. [4]
1) Not quite right. Whatever god is would be goodness. Whatever god does may either a) "be" universal goodness (if the thing he is "doing" is being-himself) or b) communicate particular goodness (if the thing he is "doing" is creating particularly good things).
2) Not quite right. If god does a, "does a" communicates something particular about his universal goodness.
3) If god "does the negation of a", then "the negation of a" communicates some other particular thing about his universal goodness.
Some particular things communicate more goodness than others.
4) Or perhaps its a bit reductive?
