(December 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Nestor Wrote: A person can remain ignorant, even by will, and that doesn't affect the truth or one's ability to recognize it given the right kind of education for that individual. I view moral truths in a similar manner to other facts about the world. Even the Southern racist, for example, can come to terms with his own moral failings. This is a premise that "progress" as such requires.I don't think so.
The Southern Baptist is probably saying that even an atheist can come to terms with his own moral failings, I'm sure (and convert/re-convert). The idea of conflating the ideas of "truth" and "morality" is dangerous, in my opinion. It doesn't mean anyone knows the truth, whatever that word even means-- it much more means that someone is intent on imposing an opinion and calling it "truth."
"Progress" implies a goal. You move forward. . . toward your goal. But what is human progress? The ability to maintain the species? The ability of a particular genetic line sustaining itself?
I think you have an ideal of how the world should be. . . and that acceptance of that world view is "coming to terms" with truth, and that progress is action on that coming to terms.
But is this anything more than your choice of world view?
