boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:31 pm I have said I feel morals are all Subjective. If all morals are subjective, then there is no absolute oughtness to how things should be. One person’s judgment on what is right or wrong doesn’t have to be another’s and neither has any absolute weight over the …
Hume’s law states normative statements cannot be logically deduced from descriptive statements. This is the “is-ought problem”. The is–ought problem, as articulated by the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, arises when one makes claims about what ought to be that are based solely on statements about what is. Hume found that there seems to …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:11 am That is, while you feel – today – there are bases for comparison (Good vs Evil), there is evidence they are Subjective to an Age, not defined by a God, nor by others. For you to simply claim you know they exist is just wrong. Is it …
alexxcJRO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:46 am We have the same problems as before. We have the same contradiction. We have an omni-perfect being(the most wise being, the most just being, the most knowledgeable being, the most benevolent and loving being, the most powerful being) making laws for slavery, for chattel slavery-the worst kind. …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:54 pm Harris argues for an objective basis for morality grounded in the well-being of conscious creatures. In his book “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values” (2010), Harris posits that there are objective truths to be known about human well-being. He suggests that science, particularly neuroscience, …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … en_(1).tif Decalogue – Ten Commandments The Old Testament places a special emphasis on the Decalogue (Ten Commandments). After the commandments were given in Deut 5:1-21, in verse 22 it says they were written on two stone tablets and no more were added. [Deu 5:22 KJV] 22 These words the LORD spake unto all …
A trait that people have is we have this expectation and desire that things needs to be “perfect”. It’s almost like another intuitive aspect of us, similar to having an innate sense of objective morality. And when things are not “perfect”, we have an uneasiness about it. We see this with Christian’s view of the …
Selections from “Slave and Master in Ancient Near Eastern Law” by Raymond Westbrook https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi … ticle=3004 Area of the ANE under study: The geographic area bounded by this study is the Fertile Crescent of the ancient Near East, from Mesopotamia in the East, through Anatolia in the North, to Syria-Palestine in the West, but, for …
The Bible states God owns everything, including all people. [Deu 10:14 KJV] 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD’S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is]. [Psa 24:1 KJV] 1 [[A Psalm of David.]] The earth [is] the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they …
Regarding taking war captives as slaves, this was the standard practice in the ANE. Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war. In Ancient Egypt, slaves …