RE: Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?
October 4, 2018 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2018 at 2:51 pm by vulcanlogician.)
Listen to Khemikal; he's articulating it way better than I am.
I finally watched the video in the OP. It's more a criticism of Harris than of ethical objectivism. For instance, it brings Moore in to sound objections against moral naturalism. But Moore is a moral realist, one whose philosophy I largely agree with.
I do personally think that moral truth is just as real as any empirical reality. I am a Platonist of sorts, and my ideas in that regard were probably shining through. Chalk it up to an eccentricity on my part and don't hold it against ethical objectivism itself.
I laid out four positions of moral skepticism. If you'd adopt one to defend, we can have a debate. If you agree with more than one brand of moral skepticism, that's fine too. But let us treat them one at a time.
I finally watched the video in the OP. It's more a criticism of Harris than of ethical objectivism. For instance, it brings Moore in to sound objections against moral naturalism. But Moore is a moral realist, one whose philosophy I largely agree with.
I do personally think that moral truth is just as real as any empirical reality. I am a Platonist of sorts, and my ideas in that regard were probably shining through. Chalk it up to an eccentricity on my part and don't hold it against ethical objectivism itself.
I laid out four positions of moral skepticism. If you'd adopt one to defend, we can have a debate. If you agree with more than one brand of moral skepticism, that's fine too. But let us treat them one at a time.
