RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 16, 2017 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2017 at 5:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're being repeatedly shown how.
The question being asked is not why "things" exist, and so asking that question or answering that question, nor conflating or equating terms in that question will approach the central issue of the dilemma.
In any case, in your elaboration above, you refer to telos and gods creation..which is an explicit acceptance of the second horn of the dilemma no matter how you phrase it. You haven't resolved the dilemma or offered a third option, merely sided with the second horn. Well, okay.......but.....
The god that created the human, the god that determined it's purpose or aim..also extorts it's creation to rape and genocide. That is, apparently, also an aim or purpose of the same god - at the very least contained therein. If that's what we're going by to determine whether or not something is good...then those exhortations to rape and genocide were good. Obviously the authors of the OT thought so, they go to some length to describe how certain characters had fucked up for not adhering to that objective fully. In this acceptance, we've decided that failure to adhere or fully manifest whatever purpose or objective god has or creates us for is the reason that something is bad, but not anything about the act in particular, some other standard apart from gods designation of purpose.
The question being asked is not why "things" exist, and so asking that question or answering that question, nor conflating or equating terms in that question will approach the central issue of the dilemma.
In any case, in your elaboration above, you refer to telos and gods creation..which is an explicit acceptance of the second horn of the dilemma no matter how you phrase it. You haven't resolved the dilemma or offered a third option, merely sided with the second horn. Well, okay.......but.....
The god that created the human, the god that determined it's purpose or aim..also extorts it's creation to rape and genocide. That is, apparently, also an aim or purpose of the same god - at the very least contained therein. If that's what we're going by to determine whether or not something is good...then those exhortations to rape and genocide were good. Obviously the authors of the OT thought so, they go to some length to describe how certain characters had fucked up for not adhering to that objective fully. In this acceptance, we've decided that failure to adhere or fully manifest whatever purpose or objective god has or creates us for is the reason that something is bad, but not anything about the act in particular, some other standard apart from gods designation of purpose.
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