RE: Subjective Morality?
October 22, 2018 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2018 at 4:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 22, 2018 at 12:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: The problem is that "wrong" / "immoral" means absolutely nothing at all (scientifically) without a non-circular definition. Once you’ve made that definition, you’ve moved away from morality itself, and into the study of behaviour and consequences under specific goals. You’re then talking about achieving and enacting certain stated ethics, according to the vision of a person or group of people.
It’s the equivocation between the defined "wrong" and the general "wrong" that leads to mistakes I often see.
In moral realism..there is only one definition for any kind of fact..including purported moral facts...so...not really any room to equivocate on that end...and if you prefer we can use the term wrong to refer to things inaccurate and immoral to refer to explicitly bad things.
A moral statement can call something bad, get it's facts wrong, and so be false as a proposition - in the view of a moral realist.
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