RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
July 12, 2015 at 6:10 pm
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(July 11, 2015 at 4:45 pm)Nestor Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 3:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Nestor-Fight? Me? Never!
I have gathered from your posts, that you read more than many here. Perhaps you are a college student?
At any rate, have you ever actually read any Christian book or articles explaining why Christians find fault with the atheist explanations of the source of morality?
I'm not looking for a fight; I just want to know what you know about our point of view.
Thanks.
I think I'm pretty familiar with some of the problems Christians have alleged against morality from a secular perspective. But I don't think they can adequately address Euthyphro's dilemma, though they seem to make an attempt by simply asserting that God = the Good. And that, to my mind, is quite question begging. It grants one assumption --- that the Good is an intrinsic property of some thing(s) that exists independently of us, and then asks to be granted another --- that the some thing is a deity whose origin is traceable to an Asian or Middle Eastern tribe of, at most, a few thousand years ago. I don't really see why either assumption should be granted, but I sure as hell don't need to ascent to the latter if it is merely the Good that we're after.
Well, you are the philosophy student, not me.
But take a look at this, this, and this, and let me know what you think.
For the non-readers: