RE: Anslem's argument is sound.
October 30, 2017 at 12:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2017 at 1:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If value is assessed, and objectively so..then by what metric is it assessed? What standard is the omniscient mind using?
Personally, I'm far more interested in whatever those metrics are, whatever that standard is, than some imaginary omniscient mind. By what standard is moral perfection greater than moral imperfection? By what standard are the consequences of either greater than or better than the consequences of the other? Are we still running with the realtionship angle? S;uppose that moral imperfection was greater than or better than moral perfection for building realtionships./ Would that then be the "greatest possible" this that or the other?
We're certainly not unfamiliar with the value of tactful deceit by omission, particularly in the setting of a relationship. A wife certainly does her partner no harm...and probably does him a great deal of good..by not mentioning the bevy of men she slept with before meeting her hubby...and how at least half of them were incalculably better in the sack. Is moral perfection actually conducive to a relationship..or is this your own naive ideological wishthinking, as divorced from reality as the imaginary omniscience which assesses actions by a standard that erodes your own belief in the foundations of morality in the first place?
Personally, I'm far more interested in whatever those metrics are, whatever that standard is, than some imaginary omniscient mind. By what standard is moral perfection greater than moral imperfection? By what standard are the consequences of either greater than or better than the consequences of the other? Are we still running with the realtionship angle? S;uppose that moral imperfection was greater than or better than moral perfection for building realtionships./ Would that then be the "greatest possible" this that or the other?
We're certainly not unfamiliar with the value of tactful deceit by omission, particularly in the setting of a relationship. A wife certainly does her partner no harm...and probably does him a great deal of good..by not mentioning the bevy of men she slept with before meeting her hubby...and how at least half of them were incalculably better in the sack. Is moral perfection actually conducive to a relationship..or is this your own naive ideological wishthinking, as divorced from reality as the imaginary omniscience which assesses actions by a standard that erodes your own belief in the foundations of morality in the first place?
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