Sunday, May 12, 2013

Predetermined purposes could conceivably make life less meaningful!

"Indeed, predetermined purposes could conceivably make life less meaningful. Consider, for example, the case of a latter-day Frankenstein who might create a human being for the sole purpose of cleaning his house. Surely this life would have less dignity and meaning than the life of a person born into a naturalistic universe?
It would be better for this creature to determine its own purposes than simply to fulfill the desires of its creator."

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