RE: Anslem's argument is sound.
November 1, 2017 at 7:16 am
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2017 at 7:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
He could assert his valuation..but anyone who's ever bought property knows that this is only the opening salvo in a negotiation. If you tell me that the thing you have is worth $400, you could only be asserting what it's worth to you, to me..it's worth decidedly less than $400. Even within a game of monopoly, real life or on the board, "the rules" of such valuations are inherently variable, and no specific authority lies with the person making the demand of $400. How many times have you been offered a railroad and declined?
Note that this is a departure from some "rules of the game" as regards monopoly in the first place, but if we wanted to use that analogy strictly, the players haven't determined the values of the board spaces. That would be an invocation of an separate and objective standard that even a god had to defer and adhere to. It's also not in any way analogous to "greatness".
I doubt that any believer will be satisfied with either valuation scheme. Beyond being a terribly strained analogy, if we simply assumed that morality (or any other valuation) was this way as part of some divine design, that this is the way it is..ought it be that way? It's the latter that believers angle for, it's the latter that is the question of morality..of standards of goodness and greatness as used. The analogy by board game to divine valuation is positively disastrous to god concepts no matter which way you run with it.
Note that this is a departure from some "rules of the game" as regards monopoly in the first place, but if we wanted to use that analogy strictly, the players haven't determined the values of the board spaces. That would be an invocation of an separate and objective standard that even a god had to defer and adhere to. It's also not in any way analogous to "greatness".
I doubt that any believer will be satisfied with either valuation scheme. Beyond being a terribly strained analogy, if we simply assumed that morality (or any other valuation) was this way as part of some divine design, that this is the way it is..ought it be that way? It's the latter that believers angle for, it's the latter that is the question of morality..of standards of goodness and greatness as used. The analogy by board game to divine valuation is positively disastrous to god concepts no matter which way you run with it.
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