RE: Objective morality
April 17, 2012 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2012 at 5:51 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 17, 2012 at 5:16 pm)genkaus Wrote: …integrity would mean more than completeness. It'd require consistency within the completeness to be considered integrated…Suppose the All lacked internal consistency. Then it would still be the All … but it would not be integrated. Thus, integrity is not a necessary characteristic.How can the All not have internal consistency? Don’t the rules of logic apply everywhere at all times. The operations of physical reality work consistently throughout the whole physical universe. Mathematics remains eternally valid and produces consistent results.
(April 17, 2012 at 5:16 pm)genkaus Wrote: …I don't see a balance, just a momentary illusion of one with all the pushing and pulling and bumping and changing courses. That's not balance, that's chaos.You see that because you are only considering local events. Particular circumstances lack the balance of physical universe as a whole, because they are not complete.
(April 17, 2012 at 5:16 pm)genkaus Wrote: …but there is no guarantee that it'd necessarily achieve such a fickle and subjective value as happiness.Having a map is not a guarantee of reaching your destination. Even Aristotle said as much in his ‘Ethics’. He said that in addition to personal virtue you also need a bit of luck. A moral standard is a guide, nothing more.