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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Morality and any associated ideal is rooted entirely in a presupposition some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior...

Wrong. See the Anclient Greeks.

116 posted on 06/09/2011 8:57:13 AM PDT by danielmryan
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To: danielmryan
By "Anclient," I mant "Ancient." There: I've admitted to my mistake...
117 posted on 06/09/2011 8:58:53 AM PDT by danielmryan
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To: danielmryan

Ancient Greeks?

Plato’s Euthyphro is a great illustration....

Socrates advances the argument to Euthyphro that, piety to the gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. (Socrates exposed the pagan esoteric sophistry.)

Likewise, morals are such a construction of idols used by the Left as a rationale for them to demand compliance to their wishes in politics, which most often are a skewed mess of fallacies in logic. “Morals” are a deceptive replacement for the “avoidance of sin.”


139 posted on 06/10/2011 3:31:43 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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