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RE: The Good Vs Evil Delusion

in #philosophy7 years ago (edited)

I'm sorry. I see no dichotomy. Which dichotomy?

You then write, "If there are no absolute truths even the premise of my statement can be taken with a grain if salt". That's my position! Now it looks like you're trying to support me in saying the there must exist some absolute truth so that your premise not be taken "with a grain of salt", but seriously. So I don't understand you.

You should not want your premise to be taken with a grain of salt as that undermines all that follows...

I think your premises are "There is no absolute truth", and almost repetitively, "There is no absolute falsehood". I say repetitively because each statement implies the other. For example, if there is no absolute falsehood, then it is absolutely true that there exists no absolute falsehood. So these two premises imply each other and can be almost considered repetitive.

The the other premise is "All absolute goods and absolute evils are illusory", because you hold to an absolute moral relativism. Ontologically, you are also an absolute relativist ("There exist no absolutes"). Have I misunderstood you?

Clarify if you wish. Or let it pass. That might be better.

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You should not want your premise to be taken with a grain of salt as that undermines all that follows...

not really. I just accept my human fallibility and inability to access all available information in order to reach truth.

I never said, there is no absolute truth, absolutely. I wouldn't know so everybody else

More or less you could say that I accept that nothing, ever can be known with absolute certainty

It seems to me that "I can know nothing with absolute certainty" is an absolute truth, that I accept. Maybe you don't use the term "absolute" as I expect.

It's hard for me to read you young people. I'm only a little over 50, but I feel that with you and many others on steemit, I'm talking past you. I am guessing that you must be a young man of less than 30. Maybe you're college age and into technology. You come from a background, with many or all in your generation, that does not immediately square with mine. No, I don't pretend to be psychic, and I might be wrong with these guesses. I misinterpreted things you said as arrogant, and I put a firm hand to you. I shall have to be more patient. This is a dangerous medium in this sense: if I had your body language by which to interpret your meaning, I probably would have gotten a different sense of you.