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Euthyphros dilemma...
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RE: Euthyphros dilemma...
(January 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: So, "good" cannot be by consensus. Majority or not, certain things are just flat out wrong.

What if everyone on the planet either disagreed or was oblivious to the moral dilemma?

A rather simplistic question but I think it holds ground. It's fairly self-evident that morality, however defined, has changed through the times. The morality of 1000 years ago on any given topic is most probably different to what it is today (eg, homosexuality?).

I think we need to be careful before we jump to the conclusion that morality by consensus is automatically wrong. After all, the consensus on, say, murder might always have been that we as a species find it inherently objectionable, but that doesn't thus equate to 'god' (whatever that is), or some moral arbiter guiding us with an invisible hand. There are perfectly good evolutionary explanations as well, all of which have been cited on numerous occasions on this forum already and to which I am reluctant to open a debate on again.
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Euthyphros dilemma... - by Apple-Boy - December 29, 2013 at 4:20 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by KichigaiNeko - December 29, 2013 at 4:29 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Apple-Boy - December 29, 2013 at 4:53 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - December 29, 2013 at 8:56 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Lemonvariable72 - December 30, 2013 at 12:26 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - December 30, 2013 at 12:31 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Clueless Morgan - December 30, 2013 at 10:25 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - December 30, 2013 at 10:56 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Get me Rex Kramer! - January 9, 2014 at 6:22 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - December 30, 2013 at 10:42 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Lemonvariable72 - December 31, 2013 at 12:17 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 10:46 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by houseofcantor - January 2, 2014 at 11:05 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 4, 2014 at 11:19 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by houseofcantor - December 31, 2013 at 12:22 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 11:29 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by houseofcantor - January 2, 2014 at 11:50 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 12:06 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Chas - January 2, 2014 at 12:49 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Simon Moon - January 2, 2014 at 8:24 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by houseofcantor - January 2, 2014 at 12:11 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 6:55 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Chas - January 6, 2014 at 9:16 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 8:39 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 2, 2014 at 10:48 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Esquilax - January 3, 2014 at 12:24 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 3, 2014 at 10:50 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Esquilax - January 3, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Simon Moon - January 4, 2014 at 10:15 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Fidel_Castronaut - January 3, 2014 at 11:16 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 4, 2014 at 10:46 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2014 at 12:18 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Esquilax - January 6, 2014 at 9:24 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 4, 2014 at 11:27 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 4, 2014 at 12:50 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 5, 2014 at 11:55 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by GodsRevolt - January 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MitchBenn - January 7, 2014 at 5:59 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Fidel_Castronaut - January 7, 2014 at 6:30 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 7, 2014 at 8:53 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 8, 2014 at 2:09 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 8, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 8, 2014 at 12:51 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 9, 2014 at 12:20 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 8, 2014 at 2:11 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 8, 2014 at 7:23 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 9, 2014 at 3:44 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by max-greece - January 9, 2014 at 4:27 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 9, 2014 at 6:19 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 10, 2014 at 1:42 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 10, 2014 at 1:47 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 10, 2014 at 7:59 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 10, 2014 at 9:28 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 10, 2014 at 9:59 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 11, 2014 at 3:19 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 11, 2014 at 4:18 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by MindForgedManacle - January 10, 2014 at 10:19 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 13, 2014 at 11:51 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 14, 2014 at 1:11 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 14, 2014 at 9:38 pm
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Angrboda - January 15, 2014 at 12:44 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 15, 2014 at 11:24 am
RE: Euthyphros dilemma... - by The Reality Salesman - January 15, 2014 at 4:25 pm

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