(October 20, 2014 at 5:35 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: To my mind, establishing and building upon a foundation of absolutes is a highly practical endeavor. I think you have the order reversed. Some people search for absolutes and it just so happens that the resulting necessary truths support the classical notions about God.
Nope, I got the order right - the cases where the search for necessary truths support classical notions about god are cases made specifically to justify classical notions about god.
(October 20, 2014 at 5:35 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: In my own case, as a former atheist, I didn’t set out to justify a belief in God. Instead what I saw is that fully naturalistic philosophies lead away from, rather than toward, absolutes (nominalism and conceptualism come to mind). In doing so doing, they undermine themselves and with them the possibility of knowledge.
Why would leading away from absolutes undermine them and the possibility of knowledge?
