RE: (LONG) "I Don't Know" as a Good Answer in Ethics
November 21, 2017 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2017 at 2:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 21, 2017 at 2:33 pm)Whateverist Wrote: You would feel better if we said we "feel strongly that" or "I am adamant that" or "I hold the position with great conviction that"?
Whereas you claim to know not just that God exists but everything there is to know about him including the fact that he has a tablet somewhere with all the objectively good and bad actions to do or avoid. In the end you just feel strongly, adamantly and great conviction that what choose to believe about God is true .. and that adds no weight whatsoever to your claim.
Pretty much have to nitpick here. Command ethicists aren't referring to any objective ethics. It's ethics by fiat, in the case of tablets. I like to remind them that when we discuss ethics, we're not even remotely talking about the same thing if they're discussing ghosts and chiseled stones. They're discussing deference to authority and -calling- it ethics, and while deference to authority may have an ethical component, it certainly can't be the entirety of the subject I'm discussing...nor can deference to authority be described as ethical in and of itself.
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