BE On Everything

Originally Posted by boycotteverything

Atheist Ireland turns out to be wonderful place for serious Philosophical- Ethical discussion. Here's my last post there. Well worth signing up! Especially you, Capt'n.

Post subject: Re: Debate: is morality man-made or god-given?
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:55 am

Joined: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:37 am
Posts: 3 I agree with you. Both Philosophy and Law have produced special languages based upon the shared definitions of their own special terms. So yes- that's the reason i distinguish between Ethics and morality. To my way of thinking morality is an expression of the will and is always coercive in one manner or another, whereas the Ethical is more properly uncovered by the Imagination and is both static and dynamic at the same time. It is Process in the Platonist sense. Morality is much like a snapshot (abstraction) at any given point in time and therefore reveals a limited amount of information. And so what is revealed is temporal truth- or perception- rather than Transcendent truth. Process and abstraction are contradictory in terms of the totality of existence. That's why I say that morality is unethical. In fact the very idea of 'morality' is self contradictory. I think the deeper thinkers in the early Church realized this conundrum and the solution was the Trinity- a spiritual Dialectic. This concept is little understood by the thumpers in robes and silly hats who take upon themselves the task of defining God for us. C'est la vie.