RE: Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?
October 1, 2018 at 6:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2018 at 6:27 am by vulcanlogician.)
(October 1, 2018 at 4:12 am)robvalue Wrote: As for things like "justice", I consider them to be abstract concepts that we use to help us understand and process our environment. I don't believe they exist in the same way physical objects exist. There is no such thing as "objective justice", there can only be a logical adherence to some specific rules of justice that have been agreed. What counts as justice in the first place is highly subjective. Morality is just the same.
Do you think that logic or reason can be used to come up with specific rules or a specific system of justice? Of course wisdom knows when to suspend logic and reason so that cultural mores can play a part when creating a system of justice. But inasmuch as something is designed according to logic and reason it is not subjective.
In America, our system of government is laid out more or less according to the ideas of the English philosopher, John Locke insofar as we have a balance of powers: three different branches in our government. This system was chosen according to the dictates of reason... not somebody's personal opinion or sense of aesthetic.
Insofar as our system provides us with justice, justice is not subjective. It is the fruit of reason.
