Reply To: Theological Conundrum (read at your own risk)

Avram:

A definition of good and bad which includes an explanation for why there should be any reason to accord with the dictates of good and bad. If you resort to saying that there is some ultimate benefit of good, then I will say that you are then not doing it for the good but for the benefit. If there is no benefit then I will ask why you should do it. In short, the criteria are that it has to be something that has a reason to follow it but doesn’t have a reason to follow it. Which may or may not be impossible. That is the conundrum, I think. If you have a way to avoid it, I’m open to it.