(October 11, 2018 at 11:19 pm)DLJ Wrote:(October 10, 2018 at 7:46 am)Khemikal Wrote: I don't think the impasse is on account of us having different ideas on what morality is or what it's for. Chances are we don't...but suppose we did.
So, for example..let's say that I say the purpose of morality is to tell people how to act. You say it's to perpetuate the species. Well, yes and yes is an option. These statements aren't mutually exclusive. What if we had some that were, though? A moral realist isn't committed to one single set of moral statements, insomuch as that all meaningfully objective and accurate moral statements - including competing moral statements..would be regarded as simultaneously true. This is the basis of dilemma in a realist moral system.
Allow me to resolve the dilemma...
There is no such thing as an 'objective moral statement'.
There you go, job done.
No need to thank me.
I mean there may be, if you consider ethics as metaphysics. There is a fact of the matter of what the best action to take is. We may not know it, but in fact there is a "best course of action".
Also hiya, long time no see! I don't know if you remember me, I stopped trolling TTA 5 years ago. I'm so sad to see all of those old threads gone. Sorry I was such a pain- I tried to be at least a little entertaining to make up for it!