RE: Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?
October 4, 2018 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2018 at 10:56 am by robvalue.)
(October 4, 2018 at 10:43 am)Thoreauvian Wrote:(September 28, 2018 at 10:52 pm)robvalue Wrote: But all you're really saying is that punching people is bad for their wellbeing.
Why does morality have to be any more than that? Aren't we all suffering from theistic hangover and making this too complicated?
The details can always be argued in the courts.
Of course, it can be that simple, but moral realists go much further than this. At least, some of them do. I’m trying to understand what they are actually saying, to see if it is essentially different from my perspective.
PS: I would say, "We agree that is a bad thing, good. Let’s move on...", whereas the realist appears to be saying, "No, I want to establish that you can’t disagree even if you wanted to, because I’m stating facts not opinions". I see no merit in this approach, so I’m trying to understand it better, in case I’m missing something. So on a practical level, I agree with you entirely.
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