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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: gao seng who wrote (25686)9/1/2001 5:33:21 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
That should shake up the rationalists a bit. Even if they don't agree, the fact that Locke posited proof of God makes clear that his concept of natural law is not simply based on nature, but is based on the existence of God.

Now I wonder whether any of the rationalists have equally cogent arguments they can post on why there is any basis for the existence of rights, outside of the simple grant of such "rights" by those in power at the time, by any thinker who doesn't also posit the existence of God.

Actually, the various proofs of the existence of God were a sort of cottage industry back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and somewhat before. Anselem, Aquinas, Berkeley, et. al. had their various proofs. It was clear to them that it was not sufficient to simply say you had to believe in God purely on the basis of belief. They were quite clear that belief in God was not only logically resonable, but logically necessary.
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