Direct Command Theory Of Ethics

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In order for one to be truly omnipotent there of course must be no limits on ones power. Any constriants what so ever render omnipotence a meaningless term. To say that an omnipotent beings power is in accordance with or follows a guideline law or any similar requirment is to limit the power of that being . To say that an omnipotent being acts in accordance with a law, is to imply that said being could not act without said law or that there would be some penalty or harm
if the being were to do so. If onmipotnece is to be true it is not to be guided, circumscribed filtered etc.; these are limits in one way or another on power.
To call a being good is to make a judgement about its character. Character judgements are derived from actions. To say that a being is good is to say that it demonstrates good behavior, that it’s actions are good actions. Besides actions one may also judge intent when judging character. Ones actions must not only be good they must be done with the intent the purpose of being good. Good actions are derived from the willing of reasoned good intent. This being said actions and intent are seperate things and so can be judged independanlty of each other. Intent and reasoning precedes action.In order to judge a thing good one must have something that is in some way sepreate or outside of the thing being judged to judge the thing being judged. If you use the thing being judeged as the standard by which to judge it then you have really made no judgement at all. You have merely created a relationship of identity; judgement of the thing= the thing itself. When this relationship of identity between a being and good is established the definition of good depends solely on the being itself. Since the being is good anything it does is good. This makes the definition of good arbitrary. With this all and every possible action by a being defined as good is good this is not at all a way in which good is used in any other situ...