RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
March 9, 2017 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2017 at 8:04 am by bennyboy.)
(March 9, 2017 at 1:13 am)Nonpareil Wrote: No. You are attempting to fallaciously equivocate between the concept of objective morality, which has to do with a nebulous and incoherent idea that there is some moral system that is true from every standpoint, and the fact that moral systems can be objectively shown to exist.
No, I've discarded under the term "absolute morality" what you are calling objective morality.
I'd like to float a definition for objective morality (a category of it, at least)-- a moral impulse which motivates social behaviors but does not depend on ideas incorporated into one's world view. I'd say there are moral instincts based on love or guilt, for example, which are only subjective in the sense that they apply discomfort to an individual, but are objective in the sense that they are not of the subject's world view. The subject "finds himself acting" in a particular way, not having known, perhaps, that such actions were even in his nature.