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>You capitalize "truth" in other comments and say we should seek it yet you don't realize this endeavor is also prone to the is-ought problem. Because man seeks
by keane 10y ago
>You capitalize "truth" in other comments and say we should seek it yet you don't realize this endeavor is also prone to the is-ought problem. Because man seeks truth, does that mean he should morally seek it?
You're right that if the reasoning given for seeking, knowing, or relying on truth was "because man seeks truth" this would be an invalid reason, subject to the Is-Ought problem. But that's not the reason I encourage you to know truth.
>The more you try to make logic of illogic…
As far as Christianity, there seems to be sort of a divide between a Western tradition that intended to show Christianity as ultimately reasonable (ie, scholasticism in the Church of Rome, the Church of England, many Protestant denominations) and groups that sort of just admit the system is fundamentally unreasonable and mystical such as the Orthodox, Roman mystics like John of Ruusbroec, Baptists, and Pentecostals. I sort of side with the latter.
>Yes, it can.…
It metaethics, an individual human's decree/decision is subjective. Maybe start by looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
>I just could as well say you haven't explored atheism enough and that's why you haven't arrived to it.
"I used to be a nihilist but then I thought, what's the point?"