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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't "justice" happen when that student appeals to the professor's superiors and gets a grade change and the teacher is chastised or fired for grading like that?[/quote]

Indeed.  But that would involve a...Higher Authority.  ;)[/quote]

No, but you make a good point.  I was joking about the popular pre-Enlightenment argument that the[b] power of authority figures necessarily derives from God[/b].  And that without God, there is no such thing as authority.  Of course, that was before Rousseau and Locke.  And I'm not talking about "Lost".  :)[/quote]

I'm not talking about the divine right of kings ;)

But I am talking about an Authority beyond any authority figures on Earth.

Hume and Kant had more to say about this question than Rousseau and Locke.  Nietszche, too.[/quote]

Right, but since the "believers" on this thread have pretty much conceded that there's no evidence for a capital-A "Authority", we're stuck at the position that an appeal to that Authority is just wishful thinking.

As Thucydides put it "[I]t is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire."

The only argument we've seen on this thread in support of a God of Justice is "if there weren't, that would be really sad."  That's not an argument.[/quote]

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