RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 10, 2019 at 4:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2019 at 4:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The thing which, attained, is a complete fulfillment of one’s life is a necessarily subjective fact. There are as many true answers for that as there are people to give them.
That thing, is a fact of a person.
I’ll stress here again, that this may be the nature of good or of god. We can imagine such a world. However, if it is, then the nature of god or goodness is subjective and arbitrary. Accidental. It is whatever it happens to be, there’s no underlying logic or constraint, and no further reduction of value.
It would be “objective” in that case, only in the sense that it was how god or goodness really is. Not in the sense required for metaphysical objectivity. Realism. Which is a position on how things are, not throwing our hands in the air saying “however things really are is realism”.
It’s that latter statement that leads to people, powerfully convinced in the accuracy of their view of reality, to assert that theirs is realism. That the other guys must be other-than.
That thing, is a fact of a person.
I’ll stress here again, that this may be the nature of good or of god. We can imagine such a world. However, if it is, then the nature of god or goodness is subjective and arbitrary. Accidental. It is whatever it happens to be, there’s no underlying logic or constraint, and no further reduction of value.
It would be “objective” in that case, only in the sense that it was how god or goodness really is. Not in the sense required for metaphysical objectivity. Realism. Which is a position on how things are, not throwing our hands in the air saying “however things really are is realism”.
It’s that latter statement that leads to people, powerfully convinced in the accuracy of their view of reality, to assert that theirs is realism. That the other guys must be other-than.
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