RE: Argument from Conscience
August 4, 2015 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2015 at 9:22 am by Pyrrho.)
(August 4, 2015 at 12:45 am)TRJF Wrote: ...
5) Individual consciences cannot be added unless each person relies on their own conscience to feel morally obliged to the group. (I think this means A's conscience cannot "oblige" B unless B'a conscience already says "it is immoral for me to not follow A's conscience.) This it is functionally equivalent to individual consience as a source. (I admit, I do not know what this means, because I don't understand what "it" refers to.)
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Your sentence can be reworded without "it." Consider:
Me not following A's conscience is immoral.
I believe you may agree that that is equivalent to your sentence: "it is immoral for me to not follow A's conscience."
The word "it" in your sentence serves a grammatical function, rather than referring to something not otherwise mentioned in the sentence. "It" refers to the state of affairs mentioned later in the sentence.
Overall, I rather like your post.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
