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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Solon who wrote (1183)	9/29/2000 5:54:08 PM
From: cosmicforce	of 28931

I didn't think you were dense -- I was as surprised as you! I had a philosophy instructor for an upper division Ethics class in college who swore I didn't understand absolutism or I'd agree with him. I said I understood it, but I didn't agree with it! It was a shameful page in my life because I ultimately got only a A- in the class because the instructor certainly wouldn't give an A to someone so incredibly pig-headed and stupid!!! What I learned was that I shouldn't disagree with a full professor. LOL! I said what he was proposing (that somehow right and wrong existed in a vacuum) was preposterous. Like some sort of Platonic form of Good and Bad waiting to be revealed. It'd be nice, but I saw "absolutely" no evidence of it. I didn't buy it then, and I still don't 20 years later. I thought you were saying the same thing. I couldn't believe that someone else was as sure of it as my college professor (at least by someone who wasn't an adherent to a particular religious movement - they frequently do believe in such a thing, you know, "God's Will" to explain the cruel deaths of babies and whatnot). I was using the b) definition of "Absolute" I show below and hence, the term absolutist. I'm not clear on the sense that you were arguing. Brightman's, of which you quote? Both qualitative and quantitative monism. My definition for relativism was: rel·a·tiv·ism (rl-t-vzm) n. Philosophy A theory that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them. Emphasis mine Using dictionary.com Absolute. Philosophy a.Something regarded as the ultimate basis of all thought and being. Used with 'the'. b.Something regarded as independent of and unrelated to anything else.

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