[MD] Freedom and the Good

[John Carl]

I don't quite get Arlo's complaint against Platt, how can having a
cosmically intrinsic directional pull toward betterness impinge upon
 freedom?


Freedom isn't something dependent upon anything outside myself, I can choose
to push against gravity and walk on two legs, or just let my body fall and
flop all over the place, whatever.  Likewise the cosmos being composed of
morality doesn't force me to be good.  I'd say just the opposite of
constraint, it offers a force to push against, a choice to be made.

A cosmos without quality is like a rollercoaster in space - meaningless.

Does Arlo complain against gravity because it forbids him from floating off
into the aether?


Choice spells more freedom, not less.