PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Omnipotence, Arbitrariness
13 Sep 2016
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Things are good because god says they are. God says that things are good because they are good. Arbitrariness- we don"t know what is good or bad. What is the reason to be good, according to this thesis: good based on own self interest, almost trying to save our own skin. Has a constraint to redesign goodness, had no basis. God wisdom turned all the way up. Power is just a little below the top bc he is just deciding goodness and badness: socrates is arguing that if there is such a thing as goodness, it is not created by god, but is independent of. If god exists, then god consults the independent standard when creating things. If god does not exist, then the independent standard still exists unaffected. No independent standard, but goodness = god. Problem: this option could just be the same as the first two.
