(July 6, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Inigo Wrote: Well, just look at that last line. A code of conduct is a set of instructions. And 'put forward by all rational persons' is just another way of saying that the instructions are inescapably rationally authoritative.
And once again, instructions can't just exist - they need to be issued by someone. And to be inescapably rationally authoritative the person issuing them would need to have control over our interests in an afterlife and be vengeful. A person like that is what's known as a 'god'. Deal.
Go through the definition once again. Try seeing what is actually written there, instead seeing what you want to see. Try to understand the meaning of the phrases and infer only what can be logically deduced.
Firstly, the definition says that morality is a code of conduct - which mean it is a system of ideas. By definition.
Secondly, being 'put forward by all rational persons' is not another way of saying that the instructions are inescapably rationally authoritative. All that means is that the instructions have rational justification for them.
Thirdly, and as has also been specified, the instructions are issued a rational person - not by a rationally inescapable authority figure. Such a person does not need to have authority over this life - let alone the hypothetical afterlife.
Your entire line of thought is corrupted from the beginning.
