[MD] Essentialism and the MOQ

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

Hi Ham --

>Whitehead wants to justify the "goodness" of God for the same reason that
>Pirsig wants to justify the "universality of goodness".  The statement "His
>necessary goodness expresses the determination of his consequent nature"
>seems to prove my point.  What "necessary goodness"?  What is the
>metaphysical basis for Whitehead's premise that goodness is a necessary
>attribute of the creation, or Pirsig's premise that morality is innate in
>the universe?  God [Essence] knows no distinctions.  Goodness is for MAN to
>discover, along with Badness.  I submit that such evaluations are only
>possible in an amoral universe in which man is the autonomous subject.

>Think on that, Laramie, and tell me why it doesn't make sense.  

How could man discover good and bad in an amoral universe?

Cheers,
Laramie