Wednesday, 28 May 2008
And the Lord spake unto the philosopher, 'I am the Lord thy God, and I am the source of all that is good. Why does thy secular moral philosopher ignore me?'
And the philosoper spake unto the Lord, 'To answer that I must first ask you some questions. You command us to do what is good. But is it good because you command it, or do you command it because it is good?'
'Er...' said the Lord. 'It's good because I command it?'
'The wrong answer, surely, your mightiness! If the good is only good because you say it is so, then you could, if you wished, make it so that toturing infants was good. But that would be absurd, wouldn't it?'
'Of course!' replieth the Lord. 'I tested thee and thou hast made me pleaed. What was the other choice again?'
'You chose what is good because it is good. But that shows quite clearly that goodness does not depend on you at all. So we don't need to study God to study good.'
'Even so,' spake the Lord, 'you've got to admit I've written some pretty good textbooks on the subject...'
Can godless morality truly exist, or is this argument flawed because goodness and God is an unseparable entity.Other thought experiemnts like this found in the book 'The pig that wants to be eaten'...its super cool!!!!!
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