RE: Subjective Morality?
October 15, 2018 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2018 at 12:25 pm by Mystic.)
(October 15, 2018 at 12:21 pm)robvalue Wrote:(October 15, 2018 at 12:15 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You can go the circular route, but if you go to recognize morality through reflections and see the wisdom and reason of everything you follow, then it's recognition. The problem occurs when holy books are interpreted in a lousy way and it's not recognized, but rather those false interpretations are blindly followed.
So if you’re able to assess what the book says using wisdom and reason, then you already have a moral framework in place. You’re just seeing what fits into it, and what doesn’t.
What seems reasonable and wise to one person won’t be the same for the next, so interpretations are clearly not objective either. You will see someone’s version as lousy, and they will think the same about yours.
Yes, there needs to be some light (moral framework you call it), to see and assess insights about the light and increase in vision of it. God can make a book that if you approach sincerely, will explain itself through itself, and Ahlulbayt (as) are just there to help expose some of it's insights, like teacher assistants that help debug problems we make in our heads and also help us understand a lot of what we don't perceive in it.
They are not meant to dictate what a verse means, but rather facilitate understanding.
Revelations are meant to make us reflect and facilitate understanding.
Anyways, I'm off to school. We'll continue this discussion probably in two days (I am swamped and procrastinated more then enough).