/lit/ - Literature

ITT we determine the Form of the Good by posting and examining natural, ordinary, normie, typical sentences which use the word 'good', rather than using metaphysics and reaching for the transcendent Good off the bat.

> "How are you feeling today?"
> "Good."

4. Argument from Degrees of Being.

- There are gradations in being: Particulars>lower form>higher form>highest form.

- The gradation of ‘’being’’ in a thing is based on its resemblance to the maximum: A particular horse is graded on its being based on how it resembles a concept of an ideal horse.

- The ideals (transcendentals) (truth/beauty/justice) also have a gradation of ‘’being’’: Something is ‘’best’’/’’nobles’’/’’truest’’.

- There is something, which is a cause of all ‘’being’’, and that is something we all call God.


5. Teleological argument / argument from final causes:
- Natural bodies work toward some goal, and do not do so by chance.

- Most natural things lack intelligence.

- What lacks intelligence (A) achieves its final cause by some natural thing outside of it (B) - An electron is orbiting a nucleus because it is a final cause of Atomic forces.

- But that thing (B) also has its final cause achieved by something outside of it (C) – Atomic forces exist, because they are a final cause of fundamental universal constants.

- The series repeats itself until we get to something which is not a final cause of anything and is itself the first cause of the entire reality.

- Therefore, an Intelligent Being exists which directs all natural things to their end. This is God

EXAMPLE:
Day and night cycle <(Is a final cause of) < Rotation of the sun < (Is a final cause of) < Gravity <( Is a final cause of) < Fundamental universal constants <( Is a final cause of) < ...???... <( Is a final cause of) < First cause.