Philosophical Speculations

Morgentraum, you might also consider this: a moral code is only relevant to humanity, which is to say, self-reflective beings who can think about what is good and what is not in the context of a planetary environment where there is competition for resources. If there are higher beings (like Greek g...

In traditional theism one does not have this problem, because God is defined as morally perfect and good. Evil does not have its own ontological category, and is instead simply considered to be the absence of goodness. In Christian theology the fallen angels were not created evil, but by their own ...

Let me rephrase this to see if I understand your question correctly. you are saying: """ Given that we have a dualist ontology of the world ultimately being made out of the entities "good" and 'evil", how can it be seen as objectively "good" to transcend them...

Hello everyone! After reading some posts on this forum I suspect that I am far less philosophically educated than most of you guys, so please bear with me. I have a question pertaining to ethics: In most ancient wisdom traditions the world of appearances was considered to be a world of opposites, a ...