RE: Objective morality: how would it affect your judgement/actions?
May 3, 2018 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2018 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 3, 2018 at 12:09 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: How can two independent moral traditions reach similar conclusions unless there is a common element that transcends the particulars or both cultures?The common element can be as simple as their common humanity. Two commensurate moral propositions can be arrived at by two groups of humans that are not objective in a relevant sense.
Both, for example, can postulate that blasphemy is immoral. So..that's one way. Another way is by pure happenstance. Another by disparate moral justifications. This is why agreement doesn't imply objectivity.,..but also why disagreement doesn't refute objectivity.
(May 3, 2018 at 12:28 pm)Sal Wrote: No, I don't think those explanations would change based upon my own opinion - at least not on the surface, since I don't consider them facts - since they're based on a (seemingly) subjective metric: the harm they cause. I think slavery is wrong because they infringe upon a persons individual freedom and ability to choose their own life for themselves without the constraints slavery imposes. I don't think anything in the previous sentence is in any way an objective statement or reason, I'm also not sure if it would suffice as sufficient explanation for why slavery is wrong.Do you consider the harm caused by slavery subjective? It;s only harmful because you say so? Did you make it so? If you changed your opinion about it..would the harm go away?
Quote:What would be a fact about "slavery is wrong", or that "murder is wrong"? Best I can come up with is "murder is wrong because it robs someone of their life", and "slavery is wrong because it robs a persons freedom". Good enough? Idk.IDK, you tell me. If the reason that something was wrong was because it robbed someone of their life...and murder robbed someone of their life...then in what way is the statement;
"Murder is wrong" not accurately communicating a fact?
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