My views on objective morality
March 2, 2016 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2016 at 1:01 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(March 2, 2016 at 8:11 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 2, 2016 at 6:47 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: My problem with the idea of an objective morality being "out there", is how would we know if we found it? What exactly are we looking for?
IThis is part of the human condition: that given any circumstance, we can't know the details so we hedge our bets by playing odds-maker. But this is no more true for morality than for economics, or for weather, or for many other highly complex systems.
With regard to God, one could almost DEFINE God in terms of those hidden objective truths: God is that (whatever it is) that caused the universe. The will of God is that moral system (whatever it is) that we can say might hypothetically give us our ideal outcome as a species.
Okay, so in that sense we could perhaps call these objective moral truths our species "goal"? But...without knowing what they are, how do we know what we are striving for, and when we've found them? It seems that no matter what, they are necessarily subject to human interpretation and judgement to become useful or meaningful in any way. I don't see any way around this.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
