From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 04:18:00 BST
Mark SH,
MSH wrote:
> Here's another attempt at a MOQ formulation of the Problem Of Evil,
> (or The Problem of Immorality) with thanks to Mel for clarification:
>
> (P1) QUALITY is Moral Perfection
> (P2) QUALITY contains DQ and SQ
> (P3) SQ attempts to dominate DQ
> (P4) Such attempts are immoral
>
> Therefore, Moral Perfection contains immorality.
>
> Any thoughts? Complaints? Accusations?
I would reject P1 and P3/P4. 'Perfection' is, in my view and I would think
the MOQ's, an outmoded word, especially when applied to the divine of any
sort. It connotes a fixedness, one that only makes sense in a context of
form, in which one can say that X is better than Y in that X is closer to
an ideal than Y is. For this, the ideal must also be a form. But Quality is
not a form, nor a being which can be thought of as deliberative, one that
chooses this over that. A better analogy is that of a force. To put it
another way, in the MOQ there is no such thing as a perfect state.
On P3, I would say that SQ resists DQ, rather than tries to dominate it.
Without that resistance, DQ would have nothing to act on, there would be no
static latches on which to build better SQ, so (P4) resistance is not in
itself immoral. Since SQ cannot "see" a higher level, if it didn't resist
change, one could have degeneration rather than DQ, and so to resist change
is not known to be immoral or moral until change is carried out.
- Scott
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