(January 11, 2016 at 8:58 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 6:30 pm)Kingpin Wrote: Some arguments I would use for reasons to reliably believe in objective value:
- Nearly universally across human cultures, arguably, there exists the same basic standards of morality. In addition, there exists in all cultures truly altruistic acts which lead to no genetic benefit.
- The majority of people who explicitly deny the existence of objective morality still act as if objective morality exists.
- There exists a nearly universal human intuition that certain things are objectively right or wrong.
- The majority of philosophers recognize the existence of objective moral facts.
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As for item number 4, I very much doubt that a majority of contemporary philosophers see any moral facts at all.
"One study found that 56% of philosophers accept or lean towards moral realism (28%: anti-realism; 16%: other)" ~ Wikipedia, Moral realism.