It seems to me that's just God as perfect, and sweeps the idea of an omnipotent God under rug so you and I are not troubled by the thought of it. — tim wood
Don't theists argue that God is both perfect and omnipotent? Are thought two things incompatible? — Walter Pound
I should think a perfect God would be omnipotent with respect to his perfection, but that's exactly not being entirely omnipotent. — tim wood
Does this reply succeed in demonstrating that the dilemma is false? — Walter Pound
The court heard Carly Ann Harris believed with "absolute conviction" she was doing the right thing when she killed Amelia — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46592959
I am not for the moment concerned with whether there is a difference between right and wrong, or whether there is not: that is another question. The point I am concerned with is that, if you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong, you are then in this situation: is that difference due to God’s fiat or is it not? If it is due to God’s fiat, then for God Himself there is no difference between right and wrong, and it is no longer a significant statement to say that God is good. If you are going to say, as theologians do, that God is good, you must then say that right and wrong have some meaning which is independent of God’s fiat, because God’s fiats are good and not bad independently of the mere fact that He made them. If you are going to say that, you will then have to say that it is not only through God that right and wrong came into being, but that they are in their essence logically anterior to God. — Russell (1927)
That identification would not tell us a single thing about what the good is. It would just identify the good with a thing/being. — Πετροκότσυφας
This replaces one word, whose meaning we are wondering about, by a list of words: kind, loving, impartial, fair, just."God wills something because he is good. That is to say what Plato called 'The Good' just is the moral nature of God himself. God is, by nature, loving, kind, impartial, fair, just and so on. — Walter Pound
This replaces one word, whose meaning we are wondering about, by a list of words
I see it as getting stuck on the first horn - that goodness is whatever God does or wants done, so if that is killing all the first-borns then that is 'good'.Would you agree that simply stating that God = Goodness is a tautology and not an answer to the Euthyphro dilemma? — Walter Pound
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