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Quote by: Dagda  Basicly, are things good because they come from God or because God says they are so? Is God good or is He just telling us that?(ignoring the questions of Him existing)
What are your thoughts? |
Are you asking for peoples opinions or for what Socrates/Plato said?
I guess it also depends what you mean by God. Do you mean God as Plato does in Euthyphro (the Olympic gods), as Plato uses the demiurge in Timaeus, or what Plotinus (and other neo-Platonists) mean by God as the One?
If the Olympic gods then the gods would be subject to morality because they are not beyond the Good.
If the demiurge, then the demiurge is co-eternal with the idea of the Good however is still subject to it.
If the neo-Platonic One, then the ideas only exist in the mind of God and thus is a creation of God as Goodness (morality gains being from the One).
In general, in order to answer this an answer to the Problem of Universals must be obtained. Does Goodness have ontological extramental being (ultra-realism), intramental being (something like Aristotle said); is it an abstraction that has no being (just a generalized word like what Roscelin said), etc..