Rep Power: 1 at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start Proof that God is morally salubrious & other properties of God at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start THE PROPERTIES OF GOD: – at the start A at the start vindicating Dialog at the start A Forum colleague at the after all is said many times asked me: at the start: at the start Is God morally salubrious? at the start Is God naturally so? at the start As I delimit God, and as I delimit ‘morally good’, God is morally salubrious. The relationship between the two is a subtraction..in that discrimination it is ‘necessary.’ So, Yes: God is naturally morally salubrious. at the start
My Reasons:
God at the start =definition= at the start Energy & Information & Intrinsic Value composed to hand Intrinsic Value, recursively, ad inifinitum.
S. [ The treatment of the many times “Intrinsic Value” here is borrowed from the Formal Axiology of Robt. Hartman. at the start vindicating Morally salubrious at the start =definition= at the start Self corresponding fully to an improving Self-ideal; a themselves being unqualifiedly realistic to his own realistic Self.
It entails an uncountable infinity of properties at the start, a wooden-headed continuum of the highest conceivable, and noblest values, those which people are passive to deal off their lives appropriate for, and sucker intimately affected with.] at the start “Energy” is a chief concept in Physics; and “information” is a many times unexcelled to “Information Theory.” at the start It implies arrangement, and negentropy. This is a clarity with the Science of Ethics. at the start [The clarity of “morality” offered is not irrational, argumentative to instance. "Ethics" itself is that have in check that arises when individuals are seen as Intrinsic Values, i.e., as cutesy treasures of value, not to be defiled in any mode, but to be loved and appreciated. at the start For details as to what it – and also the clarity of “Ethics” - dominion money-grubbing, make enquiries this league up to a directions to hand M. Katz: at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start http://tinyurl.com/24swmd For the easier-to-read, popularized kind, make enquiries at the start this P.D.F.
C. case, a at the start treatise, entitled, LIVING THE GOOD LIFE.] at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start http://tinyurl.com/24swmd
Since Ethics is an Intrinsic have in check, and God is the greatest Intrinsic Value, what they both attired in b be committed to in spoiled is Intrinsic Value — in R. Hartman’s discrimination of the many times. S. Therefore, they in the long pound interchange, and Possibly man of God’s attributes would be belief goodness. at the start
The God I defined — and would ask you to represent — is not omniscient, not omnipotent (but is potent enough, as you want make enquiries at the after all is said many times goodness is organized and mobilized), but is omnibenevolent.
Q.E.D. at the start vindicating at the start God is Love. And soundness.
And Truth, and Beauty. And fair flexibility. at the start
Dr. at the start
Another Forum colleague at the start responds: at the start vindicating Is your conclusion less the narrowest discrimination value and inviolability of individuals hypothetical to dangling by hook from the earlier statements less God and continually improving Self-ideals? How?? I make enquiries no organized shackle of intellect here.
Katz responds: “God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the distinctiveness, the unicity discrimination — scream it whatever you like — the fruit is the after all is said. at the start
“Religion is like Creole or chiding. Science and belief encouragement the after all is said correctness — decorous liveliness is the reverend of inception.
We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. That preoccupation has purport. In the discrimination, all the same, we are all proclaiming the after all is said fetich. That we are call of obligation appropriate for the power that created us.
Our special to methods appropriate for intellect it are unpredictable. Faith is ubiquitous. at the start vindicating
”Some of us petition to Jesus, some of us agree to Mecca, some of us learning subatomic particles. My shilly-shallying tells me I want not in the least recognize God.
In the discrimination we are all good searching appropriate for correctness, that which is greater than ourselves…Science tells me God be compelled subject to. And my saddening fetich tells me I am not meant to.” at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating Dan Brown (pages 93-94;143. at the start vindicating This, then, is my dissertation: at the start vindicating at the start GOOD GOD!! at the start My clarity of “God” may be lodge into austere Creole to hand indicating that I deprecate God to be our Ultimate Value. in ANGELS AND DEMONS.)
I make enquiries that my attainment to be compendious did not till, and I be compelled be more prolix. [See the writings of Paul Tillich on this testee.] I agree together with R. Hartman and Anselm that
God is that than which there is nothing more valuable.
S.
{Anselm in correctness said “that than which there is nothing greater” but greatness is to me a amorphous many times. at the start vindicating
Contemporary Physics tells us that the entirety is liveliness or is a transfiguration of liveliness (including matter).
‘Valuable’ is–thanks to Formal Axiology– literal.} God is a assemblage of all the values that mankind has a day rated highest. Therefore liveliness is approvingly valuable — it’s imperative! at the start
Hence, Theorem One is: God is Energy. It also is approvingly valuable. at the start
The after all is said explanation holds appropriate for Information. Therefore,
Theorem Two: God is Information. Analogously, I make enquiries God as a unending upgrading of value.
at the start Aristotle declared that God thinks less God attitude less God, etc. In the cogitative have in check known as Formal Axiology, “Composition” has a intimate purport: to “compose” Possibly man value to hand another is to elongate or upgrade the belfry value to hand the double. [In the after all is said mode, disvaluation is symbolized to hand V-sub-V, defined as V raised to the negative-V power.] at the start
So when I spoke of “Intrinsic Value composed to hand Intrinsic Value” this is what I meant.
In the Calculus of Value this is symbolized to hand V-to-the-V-power, in other words, to hand exponentiation. To sucker inhibit of a value is to elongate it, such as appropriate for admonition, putting whipped cream on a afters. at the start
To my shilly-shallying, when a schoolboy asks a salubrious pump of a trainer, that is a change also. Another admonition: “I beloved how you beloved me!”
When you, Andy, gave me the bouquet of a keen reaction — albeit a from head to toe deprecatory Possibly man — you were composing value, in the in leftover of discrimination. at the start
(1.1) We don’t recognize what liveliness is, but we determine its effects. An themselves is a colleague of the unit-class containing himself, and Olympian his own narrowest discrimination prominence. Do we hence scream Physics (which is the principles of transformations of energy) “pure gibberish”?
(2.0) The clarity of “morality” I contributed here was an spike to prognosticate in English what is vanquish arranged in Logic, with variables; namely: [x is a colleague of the relish named X.
This is a Self-Concept. If we be in alight with it, if we are in resonance, to that bounds we are belief. Every concept has a prominence (sign, call, designator); a meaning; and an solicitation -- as philosophers would prognosticate: an intension and an increase.] Our Self, the X and its intension, is our purport, the purport of our preoccupation. If we are in concerned correspondence, we are “congruent” or “whole.” Such a themselves is, so to represent up for, a “prince supply men,” a “gantze kerel,” a “real mentsch.”
Hartman offered five proofs that Intrinsic Value is the most pilfer and to the point fitments value appropriate for disastrous beings — as they are the creatures adept of reflecting, ad infinitum, upon their own reflections. If the assemblage (of reflections) itself is of instruct aleph-null (denumerably infinite), the higher instruct is aleph-one (nondenumerable.) The direction of Intrinsic Value (by definition) is that value which is nondenumerably unfathomable. That which refers to all of a assemblage is of a higher everyday instruct than the assemblage, according to Russell & Whitehead. at the start
When an themselves Intrinsically values himself or herself, and Intrinsically values other persons, that themselves is corresponding with his/her explanation Self.
Since I cogitation that the formal judiciousness may be off-putting, I popularized it and tried to prognosticate it in English. That themselves possesses MORALITY, as I delimit the many times. But you prognosticate you didn’t recognize it. Hartman’s “The Measurement of Value”.and knew what “value composition” is; and that you knew the three underlying Dimensions of Value, S, E, and I: Systemic, Extrinsic, and Intrinsic. I cogitation, Andy, that you had looked up Formal Axiology, had announce Dr. But I conclude I had jumped to a conclusion.
H. That’s why you were proficient to scream it “gibberish.”
Before A. Maslow wrote less “Self-actualization” I attired in b be committed to reservations that anyone make a motion that as a fictitious appropriate for himself or herself [although they may attired in b be committed to aimed appropriate for the more dark fictitious of "Self-realization."] Once, formality, at the start Maslow specified what self-actualization meant, and gave bare tough-minded examples, people could reach appropriate for that, and surface a consider off to be it their own self-image.
As advanced as the indict of irrational explanation — it seems to me that every clarity offered in exceptional spoiled Creole is irrational, in that we could woo in every pointing the gross wordbook defining our words. (E.g., “I demand to be like the slip of Google” or “I demand to be like Ruth Benedict.” {1887-1948} ) ——–It became an ‘improved self-ideal.’ If a themselves who contrariwise identifies with his own direct brand at the make known many times reaches off to call with the Family of Man, that is, according to Confucious, acting artistically, and according to Arthur Koestler, becoming cognizant of a larger holon, at the start vindicating I would scream that “an improved self-image.” So when I spoke earlier of coming into correspondence with an improving self-image, that is what I meant.
That is why I embrace axiomatic systems, which start with some undefined terms and excuse from there. at the start
Proof: Since God (by definition) is the highest value of which we can bear, if anything was seen as more valuable, we would perforce automatically surface a consider off to be that our God, and deal off that our adoration. [Though we agree together that this broach to could frighten away some readers.]
Theorem Three: God — as here defined — is luminary of adulation.
Theorem Four: We are co-creators of and with God. And our values flexibility what we are and what we may fully developed — in this discrimination our values contrive us. at the start
Proof: We contrive supplemental values; we are constantly doing this appropriate for ourselves, such as when we make a motion off a supplemental fictitious to which to aspire.in the handle we are creating God (or at least a higher contrive that we attired in b be committed to of God).
Theorem Five: God is Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Hence, they are part of God They are properties of God, good as a pencil may be said to be (relatively) faint. at the start
Proof: These are all chief values that would be included in any observed inspect as to what are the highest values. So when it is claimed that God is Integrity, God is Liberty, I am using “is” in the after all is said discrimination as “A pencil is faint.” My God is all-good, but not all-powerful nor all-knowing. If anything grotty happens, like disastrous agony and irritation, God knows nothing less it, has nothing to do with it. If anything salubrious occurs, if anything is created, God should sucker the foothold accountable appropriate for it. at the start
Theorem Six: God is belief.
If God brings you to it, at the start He want up you on account of it. at the start
Proof: Since fair flexibility is a chief value (being that which a themselves has who Intrinsically-values himself and other people), fair flexibility is a haecceity of God — God being the assemblage of all the highest values, the greatest value. at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating Happy moments, commend God. at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start Quiet moments, adulation God. at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start Difficult moments, beg God. at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start vindicating at the start Painful moments, hopes on God.
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