Without epistemological certainty there can be no certainty of ontological reality. Moral realism remains an assertion. — Fooloso4
Whether we know what is right doesn't affect what is right
— Hanover
If we do not know what is right we do not know if anything is right beyond whatever it is we assert to be right. — Fooloso4
Those who are convinced of their own moral certainty are now the majority of the Supreme Court and a large and powerful enough faction of the Legislator to determine what significant portions of our lives will be. — Fooloso4
The point is, what is regarded as the wisdom of the Bible does not conform to what you want it to. Where it does you call it wisdom, where it doesn't you reject it. I do think there is wisdom to be found but do not think it matches up with what you find. — Fooloso4
The sad thing is, this seems to be what is going on here, which frankly does not belong on a forum dedicated to philosophy.one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment. Even in educated circles the possibility of more sophisticated theologies of creation is easily obscured by burning straw effigies of biblical literalism.
I think it is all too easy for us, in a post scientific-revolution context, to expect early writers and those passing on oral history to preserve every small detail of the story as if it was some process to be able to replicate. This is not how history was told; for instance, battle records often exaggerated the number of troops on the enemy side. — Paulm12
The sad thing is, this seems to be what is going on here, which frankly does not belong on a forum dedicated to philosophy. — Paulm12
Certainty is a special class of knowledge in any event. — Hanover
And you comment is non-responsive to mine. — Hanover
I don't know their level of certitude regarding moral issues and neither do you — Hanover
I do think there is wisdom to be found but do not think it matches up with what you find.
— Fooloso4
You have no idea what I derive from the Bible, Hamlet, or Winnie the Pooh. — Hanover
Where it does you call it wisdom, where it doesn't you reject it. — Fooloso4
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