RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 20, 2017 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2017 at 1:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't have to be. A person can pick either option and accept the consequences..regardless of whether it has to do with human or divine morality. The dilemma doesn't go away when we change the subject of it.
We could all say "yes, there's a standard of goodness that we don;t create and which doesn't originate explicitly from ourselves".
-But then you aren't the author of morality.
Correct, just a communicator, is there a problem with the message?
Or we could all say, "Sure, we create morality and it originates explicitly from ourselves."
-But that makes it arbitrary.
Sure does, now do what we say or we'll hit you with a brick and/or burn you alive.
Is that so hard?
We could all say "yes, there's a standard of goodness that we don;t create and which doesn't originate explicitly from ourselves".
-But then you aren't the author of morality.
Correct, just a communicator, is there a problem with the message?
Or we could all say, "Sure, we create morality and it originates explicitly from ourselves."
-But that makes it arbitrary.
Sure does, now do what we say or we'll hit you with a brick and/or burn you alive.
Is that so hard?
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