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Honzo November 18th, 2005
The Emotion Requirement for Personhood and Choice
Think about it, any choice that is not predetermined must have at it’s root, a non-rational basis, otherwise it would be as predetermined as 2+2=4. Persons are the only beings that have free will. If we hold that God has free will, then he must be a person. If he is a person, then he must be subject to emotions. If he is subject to emotions, then He cannot be purely rational.
A lot of people put a lot of stock into God being purely rational. If he is, he cannot have free will.
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saved? How can he love us if he has no emotions? Isn’t God above the
rules in which he has created for he is God
Exactly Grant. I would swallow the pill and say that he is not entirely rational.
Isn’t God above the rules in which he has created for he is God
I am not sure. There is still some debate with in me about this.
On the one hand, God says to not kill, then he directs ethnic
cleansning in the old testament. How do you account for this? He hates
evil, yet allows evil - if we were to do the same - say allow a youind
child to be raped or murdered, we would be called a monster. How do we
account for this?
Perhaps it might be said that God has ifferent rules (moral rules) that
apply to himself and to humans. I am nonprepared to make an argument
for that here. I will leave it at there being different rules for the
maker and the made. A computer programmer can program his creatures to
do something but not be subject to that rule himself.
However, I am talking about logic, not moral rules. I think that God
must follow all rules of logic. For example God cannot make a round
square. It is nonsese to begin with and as such is not really a
limitation on God.
Now, in the above post I am not talking about a posteriori ideas, but a priori ideas. Then I am wanting to expand on them (apriori synthetic claim). A priori ideas extend from our world to all other worlds, from the Phenomenal to the Noumenal.
For more, check out the The Ideas of Kant section of An Introduction to a Theory of Free Noumenal Will and the Corresponding Manifestation in the Phenomenal World and the introduction to Analysis of Kant’s view of Space and Time.