RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 24, 2017 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2017 at 2:22 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
How dodgey. The Christian view is not what you say. The Christian view is that in the absence of God the universe is without meaning; whereas, a universe with God is richly endowed with meaning.
Either values have ontological status or they don't. In the first instance they are part of the lawful order of the universe. In the second they are self-referencial psychological preferences, whims, and fancies.
(October 24, 2017 at 1:26 pm)Whateverist Wrote: The refusal to imagine the cosmos as animated and infused with objective values is a very long way from not having very strong values oneself. Did you mean to deliberately misrepresent her position?
Either values have ontological status or they don't. In the first instance they are part of the lawful order of the universe. In the second they are self-referencial psychological preferences, whims, and fancies.
