[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:08:51 -0400
Veronica wrote about Japanese TV: I found this quite interesting, in
that the lessons of morality are not based on a religion, and
certainly not the Judeo Christian version.
Eric: That's central to the _Euthyphro_ stuff. Socrates shows that
belief in the gods (or God) need not be central to knowledge of
morality or quality.
It shows that Ivan Karamazov may have been mistaken. God may (in
some fictive modality) be dead, yet everything is NOT permissible.
The existence or nonexistence of God need NOT be foundational to a
rational morality. That seemed like a good point to debate.
Somehow Bush got involved. Why not? He's a basic particular too.
PS: Oh that's right, he's the "moral" alternative. So much the worse
for him.
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