[Vision2020] More Qualified Writer

[Art Deco]

Actually what Joe wrote is a version of a dilemma attributed first to 
Socrates:

Is something good purely because God says so or does God say so because it 
is good.

If the first, then goodness is an arbitrary judgment of God -- anything 
it/she/he declares as good is good; if the second, then God is relying on 
some standard apart from itself/herself/himself.


Many philosophers have pointed out that understanding the problem posed by 
this dilemma is in part a test of whether the reader/thinker has 
philosophical aptitude.


Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Jones" <credenda at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] More Qualified Writer


>
> Analytic philosopher Joe "a more qualified person" Campbell complained 
> about Iverson in the Daily News:
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>> "First, it is a false dilemma."
>
> And then Joe himself, just a few lines below...
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>> "If God came up with a new scripture making abortion moral, then Iverson 
>> would have to admit that it was so even though he now thinks that it is 
>> immoral. If Iverson claims that God would never do that, then he is 
>> relying on something more than God’s mere words."
>>
>
>
> DJ
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