RE: God as the hidden basis to our knowledge.
May 29, 2012 at 12:06 am
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2012 at 12:07 am by Whateverist.)
(May 28, 2012 at 10:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The thought experiment was to show how intuitively we know morality, greatness, beauty, glory, all couldn't just be brought into existence after not existing.
Wouldn't you say that all these things are evaluations rather than attributes? A piece of art may have color and texture and scale and any number of other physical attributes. But beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder .. not in the object itself.
That there may be some aesthetic universals is interesting (though not obvious). But even if there are, doesn't that point more toward what we may have in common as a species, trans-culturally?





