tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post2028688601465762763..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: AmoralismAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-54390437156500950032017-03-11T07:58:50.717-07:002017-03-11T07:58:50.717-07:00"Racism and the Immorality of Moral Sentament..."Racism and the Immorality of Moral Sentamentalism"<br /><br />Sentimentalism, not sentamentalism.<br /><br />"The idea is that it is conceptually possible for somebody to hold that an action is wrong and not be at all moved to perform that action."<br /><br />... not at all be deterred from performing that action, or ... not at all be moved to not performing that action.<br /><br /><br />"Consider, for example, a person with a desire to please God. Such a person will always be moved to do that which he believes would please God. However, this does not imply that he uses what he is moved to do to determine what pleases God. This may be a very common practice. That is to say, we may discover that people look to their own motivation to determine the best interpretation of scripture and, through that, to determine what God commands. Yet, regardless of how widespread this practice is, it still would not follow that what God commands is necessarily that which one discovers one is motivated to do."<br /><br />I respectfully disagree. Given that free will cannot possibly exist, we are unable to do other than what we WILL do (and here I find that the English constrution for the future tense is an invaluable aid). Whatever we might think we WILL do, if a given interpretation of scripture contradicts the objectives we believe we have, and we change those obectives accordingly, then what we WILL do changes because our will has changed. We cannot do what we WILL NOT do. Whenever someone follows God's commands, he is by definition motivated to follow God's commands; true, those commands may clash with some of that someone's desires, but his desire to please God must be stronger than other desires; otherwise he would not care about God's commands.<br />Pierohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17052662579477030895noreply@blogger.com