RE: (LONG) "I Don't Know" as a Good Answer in Ethics
November 21, 2017 at 8:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2017 at 8:57 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(November 21, 2017 at 8:48 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Exclaiming that science cannot verify happiness is good is question begging regardless of whether or not the hedonist who makes such a claim is correct in doing so. Not only this, by any competent use of the term and understanding of the proposition it both can, and has.
Then how DO you objectively verify that happiness is good? How is this question begging? Read premise 2: Science cannot verify values. It can verify things, but not values. Show me an example outside of ethics where science verifies a value.