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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 10, 2025
I am claiming it is cyclical, or self perpetuating. Something along the lines of the chicken hatching from the very egg it lay is a good way to express it. I also do not specifically claim Abrahamic god though every religion does indeed have a god.
Doubt towards religious commandments creates philosophy which creates runaway relativism and the solution for this is to reinvent a new set of commandments and religion which is improved upon the last to explain the world. This new set of commandments has, at least to people at the time, zero flaws and thus is called holy. Questioning what is holy, and showing that holy is problematic was exactly what Socrates did in Euthyphro.
I am claiming doubt creates philosophy because if we were to completely follow religious explanations of philosophy then there would be no philosophical problems and thus no questions to ask. Maybe I should correct my comment by removing morality, I don't think it is just morality which philosophy tries to do, I believe philosophy always wants to improve itself.
Comment by Shield_Lyger at 17/02/2025 at 00:02 UTC
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I also do not specifically claim Abrahamic god
Maybe but what *other* deity does
Hand out bibles!!
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Doubt towards religious commandments creates philosophy which creates runaway relativism
Only for those who dislike relativism, for whom *any* relativism tends to be "runaway relativism."
if we were to completely follow religious explanations of philosophy then there would be no philosophical problems and thus no questions to ask.
As someone who has taken four years of theology, I beg to differ.