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To: Aquinasfan

All "goods" are apparent, since all value systems are conventional, individual, and even are time and circumstances dependent [when inebriated, you will see and value the things a bit, or a lot, differently from how you would do it in a sober state]. And even using the logic incoherency to weed the value systems out is rather iffy.


535 posted on 03/08/2007 10:00:20 AM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob
All "goods" are apparent,

Including this belief, which is good, right? So then this belief is an apparent good, and not one that conforms to objective reality (if in fact reality exists at all?)

Goodness is convertible with being. Therefore, your claim is that goodness, or being, or reality is apparent, which is contradictory.

since all value systems are conventional, individual, and even are time and circumstances dependent

You have knowledge of all value systems? You know that they are all defined by convention or subjective opinion? What about the idea that good is to be done and evil avoided? Is that an objective truth or a subjective belief?

536 posted on 03/08/2007 11:13:59 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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