RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 6:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 6:54 pm by GrandizerII.)
If X is right/wrong because of something about X, then God would be extraneous when it comes to morality. But at least you can still be logical by arguing for this, as long as you realize that morality then is not contingent on God, even if you adopt an argument earlier stated by Belaqua: that God is the final cause of the goodness of X.
If you say X is right/wrong because of something about God, then this implies divine arbitrariness. Even if you equate God to the Good, then whatever is good is good because of the Good. So there is a possible world in which lying is good because it is in line with the Good.
You can't have it both ways, and there's no logically coherent, effective, completely middle ground that resolves both issues expressed by the two positions.
If you say X is right/wrong because of something about God, then this implies divine arbitrariness. Even if you equate God to the Good, then whatever is good is good because of the Good. So there is a possible world in which lying is good because it is in line with the Good.
You can't have it both ways, and there's no logically coherent, effective, completely middle ground that resolves both issues expressed by the two positions.
