RE: Religion is a poor source of morality
October 7, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Robvalue Wrote:Thank youI wonder if you would be interested at all in The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris.
I can't even understand what someone even means by objective morality, until they can give me some sort of real example.
To me, one of these always applies to talk of objective morality:
1) It's incoherent
2) It's actually subjective morality being called objective morality
3) It's of no practical use to anyone
There are two important point to not miss in his argument. The first point is about how - like John Searls said - there are two kinds of objectivity, epistemic and ontological. Therefore you can study facts about subjectivity objectively.
The second point you shouldn't miss - although I'm sure you already know this - is how uniformity is not required for objectivity. I.E. Even if the whole world believed that something was right or wrong it wouldn't make it right or wrong and so objectivity in his argument is not about uniformity.
I am such a huge fan of Sam Harris and as for his argument against free will, well. I feel he just articulates so much better than myself what I have believed and how I have felt for years.
Sam Harris on objective morality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm2Jrr0tRXk