(September 11, 2015 at 9:10 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(September 10, 2015 at 11:15 am)Pyrrho Wrote: I rather like your statement:
"God cannot decide what objective morality is, or else it would be arbitrary."
I think that is exactly correct. And why god is irrelevant to morality.
But rather than attack your premise that objective morality exists (which I would not want to try to prove to be either true or false), I object to your claim that objective morality must be perceived. Why can't objective morality exist without being observed? It is certainly not the normal way to think of things that exist. Pluto was not observed before the 20th century; does that mean it did not exist before then?
I think it's obvious by it's nature, that it requires perception or itself is type of perception. Just think about it. It's not something that exists like a physical object but is experienced via consciousness in a particular way.
Saying "it is obvious" is never a proper justification for something.
Also, if morality is simply a perception, then it is not objective at all, contrary to what you are asserting about morality.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.