PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meta-Ethics, Moral Realism
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Being commanded by god and being right are the same: being right just is being commanded by god, if no god, then no right, god"s attitude/command makes things right. Property of right consists in the property of being commanded by god. If god commands what is right because of some reason: he does so on a whim. Why believe something someone powerful does, does it mean its good: obama, answer: what does it mean for god to be good. But religions can give us moral guidance, and it may even bring up ideas that haven"t been thought of before. If the world is perfectly good, why is there donald trump. Or both sides got some merits, show what each side says, with analysis of both sides, and then saying what is needed to see which of the is more plausible.
