(March 7, 2017 at 6:45 pm)Nonpareil Wrote: I have never said, or implied, that truth "must be" subjective. I have stated, simply and plainly, that value judgments are, by definition, subjective, and as such, "objective morality" is a contradiction in terms.Right. That's the normal position. My position is that "value judgments" are in fact expressions of genetic predisposition, i.e. that the ideas serve the machinery underlying them, and that they are consistent enough across the population to be taken as an objective property of the human condition. You claim these are something like "culture subjective."
Maybe we can agree on something like this-- that the details of moral systems vary a lot and can be called subjective, but that the moral impulse is always rooted in the objective facts of human evolution. This explains why "morality" refers both to the moral ideas or systems, and also to the condition of being moral.
