RE: The euthyphro dilemma.
September 13, 2010 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2010 at 6:57 pm by theVOID.)
(September 13, 2010 at 6:39 pm)Watson Wrote: As for your question, VOID, I thank you for posting it. I find it to be a very interesting one.My answer to you would not be either of the supplied answers, as I posit that God is good- that is, He is the source of goodness which radiates outward from Him. God is goodness, essentially, and goodness is God.
All you have done is obfuscate the dilemma without answering it.
You say God is good, according to what?
Is he good because he complies with an external standard of good, or is he good simply because whatever he is (and wills to be) is good (making it arbitrary and subjective)?
(September 13, 2010 at 6:45 pm)Watson Wrote: As I said, why does God have to be responsible for or receiving of moral authority? Isn't it, in fact, possible for God to be the source of goodness without being seperate from it(goodness)?
Yes, if god defines (or is) what is good = HORN 1 - This means goodness is arbitrarily what God wills it to be, and don't pretend you don't think God has a will.
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