PHILOSOPHY AND GOD

Of all philosophical concepts, God is central to philosophy as such. This is not even a matter of religion, but a matter of philosophical understanding of everything from ethics to metaphysics. God is not a ‘question’ in this respect, like, say, the basic question asked by ethics: what is good and what is bad?, etc. God is literally “the measure of all things philosophical,” to paraphrase (kind of…) Protagoras. We cannot measure or evaluate any item within a subjective set, or a system of objects or values, without setting up an objective arbiter outside the “sphere” of our interest. Thus, "God" in this case becomes not so much an article of faith, as an indispensable formal standard of “weights and measures.”

Accordingly, my “God by Postulate” concept is not some religious accommodation, but an immensely useful practical tool of all philosophical inquiry.