RE: Godly Motivations
October 31, 2019 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2019 at 6:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
These sound like arbitrary rules of desire. Its not clear why desire necessitates a lack. Or "a lack" requires incompleteness.
Is it impossible for you to desire something you don't lack? Is it possible for there to be some lack you desire to fill which isn't related to any personal incompleteness? Do you desire to help people because you lack and are therefore incomplete, for example? Can that be stated as a rule of Boru and why he helps?
Couldn't it also be argued that a being without desires is incomplete..and has "a lack"?
I know, I know, christian theologians have been mortified by the idea that their walking bundle of human desires-as-god might somehow be insufficient on account of that, but those guys are nuts and it's not at all clear why these things mean what they worry about.
Is it impossible for you to desire something you don't lack? Is it possible for there to be some lack you desire to fill which isn't related to any personal incompleteness? Do you desire to help people because you lack and are therefore incomplete, for example? Can that be stated as a rule of Boru and why he helps?
Couldn't it also be argued that a being without desires is incomplete..and has "a lack"?
I know, I know, christian theologians have been mortified by the idea that their walking bundle of human desires-as-god might somehow be insufficient on account of that, but those guys are nuts and it's not at all clear why these things mean what they worry about.
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