Ethics 03 - Supernaturalism

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Suppose that kindness is good and that God commands it. Socrates would say that

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1 is correct!

Suppose that kindness is good and that God commands it. Socrates would say that

{ 1 } - God commands kindness because kindness is good.

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Here God commands kindness because he knows that it's good. His will doesn't make it good. Instead, he wouldn't command it if it weren't already good.

But then kindness is good prior to and independently of God's will. It would presumably be good even if there were no God.

This alternative involves giving up supernaturalism.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

Suppose that kindness is good and that God commands it. Socrates would say that

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Then kindness wouldn't be good if God didn't command it.

On SN, things are neither good nor good prior to God's desires. Instead, God's will makes things good or bad. If God commanded hatred and not kindness, then hatred would be good instead of kindness.

This SN answer, while possible, seems to make ethics arbitrary.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

Suppose that kindness is good and that God commands it. Socrates would say that

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No, he would say just one.

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Suppose that kindness is good and that God commands it. Socrates would say that

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No, he would say one of these.

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