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Objective morality as a proper basic belief
RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
(June 26, 2017 at 12:13 am)Khemikal Wrote:
(June 26, 2017 at 12:01 am)Whateverist Wrote: Precisely.  So how do you ascertain that your feeling and desires haven't fooled you as you attempt to make your leap from your subjective experience to objective certainty?
That's a tough one, isn't it?  I can't answer for Henry....

(lol-yes-i-can, magic book told him  :; )

...but, from a secular objectivist point of view...while it may be difficult to identify when one's own biases have compromised a moral judgement....it doesn't seem to be impossible.  We can realize that we've been so compromised...and we do have the help of all our fellow human beings.  Of years worth of thinking on the subject.  Of those objective facts about a proposed moral fact of the matter.  

Ultimately, there's always going to be at least the potential of the human stain, as it were...but we can only do our best, a wise man just told me.


Yeah, from my POV it isn't anything I lose sleep over.  But then, unlike our OP, I don't have to maintain belief that I possess the OM.
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RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief - by Whateverist - June 26, 2017 at 12:29 am

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