CC049: The Euthyphro Dilemma - Matt Flannagan vs Jason Thibodeau
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Why I Desire the Water
If I desire some ends, then don't I have reasons to do the things necessary for achieving that end? This seems to be what Emanuel Kant thought. But on a view like Derek Parfits or Jonathan Dancy's, it's the qualities, the value of the states of affairs that we aim at that give us reasons. So let me also go back to with Sarah. It seems to me that, given that torture is a bad thing, God has reasons to command that we not torture. The thing about Sarah is, he's got all kinds of motives that we would not endorse, that are horrible motives. If we think that desires give people reasons, and we're going to have
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