RE: Subjective Morality?
October 22, 2018 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2018 at 8:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The trouble is that it's highly unlikely to be what you think now. What you're likely to think right now is that some y is wrong because of x, and x is true.
As to definition and discovery...well..yes and no. We define the good, so that we know what we're talking about when we talk to each other (just like we define the word cat)...but in an objective system.....the conclusions are based upon what we discover that conforms to that definition. Whereas, in a legitimately subjective system...nothing that we discover really matters. The value of y is set by our opinion of y, not by our discovery of some x about y.
All terms are fundamentally abstract. We are abstraction engines that utilize a common language for transfer. This may be a problem for moral facts - but if so (or when so) it is equally a problem for fact, in general.
As to definition and discovery...well..yes and no. We define the good, so that we know what we're talking about when we talk to each other (just like we define the word cat)...but in an objective system.....the conclusions are based upon what we discover that conforms to that definition. Whereas, in a legitimately subjective system...nothing that we discover really matters. The value of y is set by our opinion of y, not by our discovery of some x about y.
All terms are fundamentally abstract. We are abstraction engines that utilize a common language for transfer. This may be a problem for moral facts - but if so (or when so) it is equally a problem for fact, in general.
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