RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 19, 2017 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2017 at 10:15 am by Angrboda.)
(October 19, 2017 at 8:06 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 18, 2017 at 11:32 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: So, no answer for the dilemma then, huh? I didn't think so.
Not having an answer that you would accept is not the same as having no answer.

Go die in a fire. You had your chance to explain yourself. You chose instead to be a narcissistic cunt, and wave your finger all around. What makes you think we started this thread just so you could derail it to talk about your personal bugbears? We didn't.
If I'm being charitable, the best I can interpret your answer is that you believe in a metaphysics in which things just "are" intrinsically good or bad. That things are motivated to becoming by "essences" and "natures". That God's "goodness" somehow communicates itself to the human intellect by "supernatural means". It's an incoherent mess of medieval ideas that make no sense in light of our modern understanding of cause and effect, and natural law. It's a throwback to a time when we were ignorant of the nature of things. When instead of attributing a nut growing into an oak because of DNA and physics and chemistry, we postulated mysterious "essences of oak" that caused it to develop into an oak tree. Is this the kind of cockamamie bullshit that you're postulating as an answer? Bullshit essences and magical communication? How exactly do you attach a coherent meaning to the phrase, "God is good" without invoking magic? How exactly does the communication between God's nature and the human intellect work? What's the chemical composition of an essence?
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