RE: Religion is a poor source of morality
October 9, 2015 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2015 at 11:22 am by Mudhammam.)
(October 9, 2015 at 7:33 am)robvalue Wrote: And if there's an answer but it's impossible for us to know what it is, that is also useless for making any actual decisions.There may be dilemmas in which the correct answer is not entirely clear, but most of the time, for the overwhelming majority of people, something of what it means to treat another rightly or justly is pretty self-evident.
Quote:I'd say "morality is objective" is a claim, which needs demonstrating. I still don't understand what the phrase actually means, and I don't think I will until someone gives me an example. I'm not asking for proof, just one little example of how it would actually work in reality; and why I should care about it if it does.Some might say that morality involves self-evident, necessary truths, like 2+2=4, and that no further demonstration is possible or required. Others could try to persuade you that every culture has certain norms upon which they agree - punishment for murderers or thieves, say. Still, someone may attempt to give a rational defense of objective morality, by either demonstrating the meaningless or self-refuting nature of subjectivism or by putting forth a positive argument, such as that morality is what everyone WOULD agree upon if everyone were equally positioned to each other; the moral solution to any problem is then a hypothetical ideal, and it is up to you to discover it through reason, and oftentimes, experience. Those are some of the possible ways I can think of at the moment.
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