RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
May 18, 2017 at 7:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2017 at 7:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 17, 2017 at 8:51 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: It wasn't long ago that most uhm....sceptics denied objective morality just because of supposed or presupposed implications.Whaaaaaaa? Objective moral philosophy is a subject crowded to the brim with "skeptics" and has been for a few hundred years now........- somebody had to do the work, what with the faithful stopping at "goddidt". I think it;s far more accurate to say that you have long suffered from a misapprehension about the status of objective moral philosophy brought about by your confusion as to what tense was being discussed -by- moral philosophers when they commented on the subjectivity of morality - or perhaps confusion over criticism regarding whether or not any of the various subjective moralities that -do- exist were, in fact "the objective one".
It's good to see things change over time.
The dominant paradigm in objective moral philosophy at present and for some time is a secular one, available to both "skeptics" and believers alike.
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