(March 9, 2017 at 8:02 am)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
As that is not what anyone else means by "objective morality", there is really no point to this, even if your definition were coherent.
(March 9, 2017 at 8:02 am)bennyboy Wrote: 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
That is not what "subjective" means.
(March 9, 2017 at 8:02 am)bennyboy Wrote: but are objective in the sense that they are not of the subject's world view.
That is not what "objective" means.
"Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it."
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner