RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 15, 2018 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(February 15, 2018 at 12:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 10:43 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: If our wants and needs are fueled by our values, and our values are rooted in our evolutionary biology, what drives god’s values?
I believe that is the wrong question. To speak of His wants and desires is just anthropomorphism. In any doctrine built on Neo-Platonism, God embodies the highest Good and it is up to us to recognize and choose His Being as an independently existing object of reference. As Sartre said, "Man is condemned to be free..."
Isn’t calling god, “good”, just more anthropomorphism though? If it’s incoherent to talk about god’s wants and needs, then it’s equally incoherent to talk about him as good and not bad. If god is essentially inexplicable, why bother attempting to define his attributes at all? The ‘highest good’, or, ‘The One’ described in Neo-Platonism (as I understand it) is not a sentient being with a stream of consciousness as the Judeo-Christian god is so often described, correct? Are you blending the two concepts?
