(September 24, 2013 at 7:51 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Hume's critique does not really apply. As Aristotle pointed out all people desire the highest good. Questions of value relate to the practical matter of how to recognize that good and to achieve it.
Pointing out that a great philosopher said something is the case and is thus true doesn't interest me. Further, I don't know what the 'highest good' is or could even be, so how am I striving for it?
Lastly, I don't see how worshipping God gets one to the highest good. Hume's criticism seems applicable to me because to say that God is worthy of worship would seem to need a reason for such to be the case, something about God. But if it is because of something about how God is, then you're trying to derive a value from a fact. Derivation cannot be the process here. I already have to have the value in place for the fact to even matter to me.
