RE: My views on objective morality
March 13, 2016 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 7:41 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 13, 2016 at 1:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(March 12, 2016 at 10:06 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: How do I know? Same way I "know" God exists, if you will. It's what I believe and it makes sense to me.
You can say you "know" it all you like, but knowledge is demonstrated, it's based on repeatable, real world observations, and without any of those you're really doing nothing more than attempting to disguise a subjective moral view as an objective one using borrowed authority from a being we can't even establish to exist.
It does seem to me I have every reason to believe that which I know is true. But do I have reason to claim to know everything which I believe to be true? That seems to put the horse before the cart .. well the wrong way around at any rate.
We all operate on provisional beliefs, hunches too. The question becomes at what point do we admit them to the table of knowledge? If I'm recklessly permissive about it, I may weaken my confidence in my very ability to recognize the truth. Of course if I foreswear to ever admit truths which are not of an empirical nature, I may become over confident but glib and shallow. Tricky business this being human.
