2010-11-27, 08:01 PM
meh, the dualism of Christian ontology was proposed hundreds of years prior to "Christ" in the accounts of Socrates, by Plato, just before his death.
As for the question of knowledge of right and wrong as it pertains to the Adam and Eve tale, they knew of obedience. It falls into two separate categories; obedience and knowledge, in which right and wrong knowledge is the knowledge to think for oneself what they should and shouldn't do. Obedience does not necessarily require the independent knowledge of right and wrong, they simply must listen. The example used earlier in this discussion was of a baby listening to the parent, this specific epistemology doesn't assume any existence of knowledge at birth, and so when the baby is told to do something they do it, right or wrong, unknowing of that detail. It is only later that the development of, "ok listening to my parents is right/wrong," is instilled, whether that is actually the case or not.
As for the question of knowledge of right and wrong as it pertains to the Adam and Eve tale, they knew of obedience. It falls into two separate categories; obedience and knowledge, in which right and wrong knowledge is the knowledge to think for oneself what they should and shouldn't do. Obedience does not necessarily require the independent knowledge of right and wrong, they simply must listen. The example used earlier in this discussion was of a baby listening to the parent, this specific epistemology doesn't assume any existence of knowledge at birth, and so when the baby is told to do something they do it, right or wrong, unknowing of that detail. It is only later that the development of, "ok listening to my parents is right/wrong," is instilled, whether that is actually the case or not.