(July 31, 2017 at 10:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Is it possible to make a moral system without reference to instinct or to superstition, but rooted in rational principles? How might we go about doing that?
Jeremy Bentham made a respectable stab at it with utilitarianism, based on the greatest good for the greatest number, which he expressed as the moral principle,
'...it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.'
Such a system has inherent problems (how does one define 'happiness', for example), but it certainly seems to qualify as a reason-based moral system.
Boru
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