The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?"
Intrinsic value of self is self-evident by my moral outrage when my value is denigrated or tread upon. Everyone believes that they matter and wish to be important. The worth of self is self-evident, but the respect for others isn’t.
The graves open and 20 great kings of the past rise and see each other and immediately start fighting. But they rach stop and bend the knee when Christ appears. We need a unified embodiment of the ideal. The greatness of each king was in their reflection of Christ. The value of the human soul is that each of us hs the spark of divinity within us. We will be unable to coexist unless we can be unified in recognition of the ultimate transcendent good.
Instinct of coming into contact with someone greater than yourself induces aww. A real response when you come into contact with truth. Evolution has given humans the ability to reason, self-reflection, and to imagine the view point of another. God brings order to chaos when He speaks truth. We create islands of chaos each time we lie to ourselves or others.
Being involves limitation, suffering and pain. Meaning involves moving beyond our limitations. There is pain and suffering to alleviate, there is evil to constrain.
Memes are ideas that get copied and passed down or reappear generationally. But certain memes are achetypes that are reglections of genetics/evolutionary biology (eg dominance). Other memes can appear and have genetic and epigenetic affects, conveying social and reproductive benefits that become encoded in our genome. We may be writing or rewriting our own genetic code to some degree.
Our ability to imagine how others feel or are thinking doesn't necessarily lead to morality. That skill can also be used to detect the success of deception.
The Bible conveys archetypes in the form of stories that have no bottom. You can ponder and realities of these stories and their application (creation, cain/abel, etc) and never fully appreciate all their significance.
Nietzsche declared “God is dead” and mournfully predicted the the replacement of religious society by nihilism and Marxism and predicted that people in the absence of religion would look to dictators to take its place which would wage war. Philosophers also talk about delay because society is living on thr corpse of our ancestors and its nourishing for a time until it putrifies.
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
Atheists ask, why are 3rd-world countries prediminately Catholic while atheist/ socialist Europe prospers? 1. Catholisism does not represent true Christianity 2. global economic conspiracy 3. Europe is living on the corpse of dead ancestors but will fall eventually.
I may regard you as a soverign individual. If that an opinion, rational claim, enlightened claim, postmodern quandary, a meme, or an archetype whose violation produces severe consequences where transgression is fatal. Without religion, we are left with nihilism or totalitarianism. There is mo usch thing as secular ethics.
In the hierarchy of needs, Dawkins talks about genes as biology and memes as culture. But Peterson says many memes are also biologically derived.
Dostoevsky, if God is dead than anything is permitted. Atheists act religious but criticize it. Dostoevsky committed the perfect murder but couldnt escape his conscience.
Atheist, “This body is made to write”, “I’m just acting out a meme”. Peterson says hogwash, the act of writing is an archtype with an ancient and divine reality.
No comments:
Post a Comment