RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
May 18, 2017 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2017 at 9:53 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Well, it would seem that in order for that to work, the world would have to be intelligible and at least partially conceivable.
I never said that the world was completely unintelligible. All that means is that there is some order to the world.
It seems to me that if the world is even partially unintelligible then that small amount undermines the intelligibility of the whole. When you qualify the world's intelligibility that allows you to let in any absurdity through the back-door to dismiss otherwise reasonable conclusions about the nature of reality.
(May 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: It doesn't mean, for instance, that all our perceptions, from sensus divinatatis to the moral sense pick out features from the world. That would be an absurdly hasty generalization. Nor does it mean that reason reflects that order like a mirror.
I did not mean to suggest that people perceive the world without error. We know from common experience that they do. At the same time, the evidence of the senses seems to be self-correcting with further observations and analysis. Also I think questioning an essential and necessary correspondence between reason an intelligible world order raises serious problems with respect to humanities ability to attain knowledge. Personally, I think it undermines the whole enterprise. If you don't stand for something, you cannot stand for anything.
