[Vision2020] More Qualified Writer

[Doug Jones]

Wayne believes merely citing authorities ("Socrates" "many 
philosophers")  fixes a false dilemma. Is that what he means by 
philosophical aptitude?

The Euthyphro dilemma is false:   
http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol5/none5-2.htm


Doug J.






Art Deco wrote:

> 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
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Jones" <credenda at moscow.com>
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> Subject: [Vision2020] More Qualified Writer
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>>
>> 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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