[lit-ideas] Re: 9th edition of the EB

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:05:39 -0600

WO:
I am reminded of this because I believe that "morality"/"immorality" cannot apply to an omniscient, omnipotent being. So whatever you were doing at the time, you could not possibly have been writing about the immorality of God.


I'm not so sure. Have you read the Old Testament? It's hard for me to see how God could be judged other than immoral. His crimes would screamed to heaven had they been committed by a stupid human, much less an omniscient, omnipotent being. What human court of justice would make all the descendents of a murderer die in the electric chair as well as the murderer himself? What human conscience could possibly conscience the burning to death of hundreds of thousands of people in two cities because they were at odds with own their beliefs -- OK, yes, the American conscience, but who's else? God, as I've seen him represented is the most vicious, tyrannical, small-minded being in the world, except for Christian Evangelicals, so I don't have any problem calling God immoral. Let's just hope he's not immortal.

Mike Geary
Memphis

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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: 9th edition of the EB


Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:

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Ursula, writing about the immorality of God for a lecture at 8:30
tomorrow morning.

Such a time for such a lecture ought to be declared morally impermissible.
(Something like scheduling a grade 10 math class for that same time.)

But your topic reminds me of the time RP dressed me down for asking something like "How does one spell 'P'?", where 'P' was misspelled. Of course there can be no possible answer to that question since there is no such word as 'P.' RP defended his view with extended quotations from Plato, all referring to the impossibility of searching for the nonexistent, so who am I to disagree with
Plato.

I am reminded of this because I believe that "morality"/"immorality" cannot apply to an omniscient, omnipotent being. So whatever you were doing at the time, you could not possibly have been writing about the immorality of God.

Makes one wonder about the epistemic authority of our own intentions and
self-knowledge.


Fallibly hypothesizing an intention of clarification,

Walter O.








Or maybe it's my puny understanding....

Lawrence Helm wrote:
>
> So one must go to the Index, Volume 25, find which volume the article
> you want is in, e.g., volume 4;  close Volume 25 and open Volume 4.
> The page number you copied down from the Index will not help you find
> this article with any accuracy in Volume 4 because the page numbers in
> the Encyclopedia do not match the page numbers in the Adobe Reader.
>
>
>
> There seems to be room for improvement here.
>
>
>
> Lawrence
>
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