RE: Euthyphros dilemma...
January 6, 2014 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2014 at 9:24 am by Esquilax.)
(January 4, 2014 at 10:46 am)ChadWooters Wrote: In reference to the OP is something good because the chemistry of the consensus wills it or does the chemistry of the consensus will it because it is good?
Your feeble explanations fail for the same reason pagan moral systems do.
It depends on whether you have a definition of good that is in any way useful; if your definition of what's good relies solely on what your god thinks, then you're just indulging in an appeal to authority, and one you can't even demonstrate exists at that. We can't agree, in that case.
If, however, your idea of what's morally good concerns the welfare of thinking beings- and if it doesn't, what the hell would be moral?- then it is generally speaking within the best interest of the greatest number of people to do good and form social contracts which facilitate this. In essence, the answer to your question is neither; reality dictates what is and is not good, and we only learn what this is through experimentation and evidence.
Far less feeble than "this old book told me what to think," isn't it?
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