Delete comment from: Edward Feser
Dianelos,
Thank you for your commentary on the spirits of deception and the dangers of the intellect.
However, my issue was with what I took to be the falsehood of your propositions that "the value of human persons remains identical." and "This is a basic premise of theism"
I am trying to understand how this could possibly be true of theism, when it is not even true of a more limited monotheism.
Nor does it seem to me that the understanding which you assert atheists have of this "truth" could possibly be founded on any coherent and consistent application of atheist, or at least materialist, principles.
Even though it is conceivable that one might be both an atheist and a moderate realist, the moderate realist position alone does not lead to the conclusion that all members of some denominated class of natural kind entities have the same ethical value unconditionally: unless you were to tautologically stipulate it independent of any evidence a priori.
The equal ethical value of persons in Christian theory seems to be based on their equal status with regard to each other in relation to their Creator and to His ethos; not upon their equal value to one another directly or as members of a natural kind.
If you do not mind my saying so, you seem to hop from one leg to the other, from philosophy to faith, as a matter of rhetorical convenience and as a way of avoiding unpalatable implications.
It puzzles me.
Mar 31, 2017, 12:20:12 PM
Posted to Meta-bigotry