RE: The Struggle to do Good
June 2, 2020 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2020 at 9:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 2, 2020 at 8:59 am)brokenreflector Wrote:Can't be much more clear than telling you that I'm a moral realist, now can I?(June 2, 2020 at 8:32 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You'd have to have that discussion with someone who wasn't a moral realist, wouldn't you, Broken?
Stop pussyfooting around. Do you believe in objective moral values and duties or not?
Quote:If there were a different god with a different set of necessary principles™, would those be the moral principles? Can you give me an example of one of those principles?Quote:If you believe that good and bad are decided by god-relative tastes
I believe in objective moral values and duties and I believe they're ontologically based in God not as tastes but as necessary principles similar to mathematics.
Quote:This should be interesting. Care to provide an example of that epistemological framework at-work?Quote:Further, if the propositions of that subjectivist morality must be beamed into your skull for you to even be aware of them, in what way are you a competent moral agent, or a moral agent at all?
I believe God has provided us with an epistemological framework in the form of moral faculties and self-reflection that give us the ability to apprehend these objective moral values and duties.
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