RE: Subjective Morality?
October 25, 2018 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2018 at 6:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The answer is yes, and so do you, lol. There is nothing novel going on with any of that..it's a flow chart of the points of divergence for a multitude of moral theories - not a trick question. You just quoted me answering your question..and then asked it again......?
The difference between non cognitive moral theories and cognitive moral theories is whether a person thinks that we are expressing a belief, or something else. So, when you think about a person making a moral judgement, including yourself..do you think that this moral judgement describes a state of belief? That the person intends to communicate what they take to be true? The reason that it's important, is that if you do think that..and are therefore a cognitivist, non-cognitivist objections to any form of moral realism (or cognitivist subjectivism) are irrelevant.
So..let's say you're an error theorist, as an example. If you object with a comment along the lines of "but what if the non-cognitivists are right" then the cornell realists answer (far removed by substantial aditional commitments and disparate answers) can say "then you and I are both wrong". Conversely, if an error theorist asks a cornell realist "how do you overcome the objections of noncognitivism" - the answer is "the same way you do".
You'll have agreed, if you agree with cognitivism (and yes, even though you're a subjectivist - again..in my example) that moral statements -purport to report facts-, and so contradiction of that statement in the case of cornell realism but not in the case of error theory is inconsistent. If you had a valid objection to cornell realism as an error theorist....it could not be the comments of non-cognitivists...the disagreement would lie elsewhere.
The difference between non cognitive moral theories and cognitive moral theories is whether a person thinks that we are expressing a belief, or something else. So, when you think about a person making a moral judgement, including yourself..do you think that this moral judgement describes a state of belief? That the person intends to communicate what they take to be true? The reason that it's important, is that if you do think that..and are therefore a cognitivist, non-cognitivist objections to any form of moral realism (or cognitivist subjectivism) are irrelevant.
So..let's say you're an error theorist, as an example. If you object with a comment along the lines of "but what if the non-cognitivists are right" then the cornell realists answer (far removed by substantial aditional commitments and disparate answers) can say "then you and I are both wrong". Conversely, if an error theorist asks a cornell realist "how do you overcome the objections of noncognitivism" - the answer is "the same way you do".
You'll have agreed, if you agree with cognitivism (and yes, even though you're a subjectivist - again..in my example) that moral statements -purport to report facts-, and so contradiction of that statement in the case of cornell realism but not in the case of error theory is inconsistent. If you had a valid objection to cornell realism as an error theorist....it could not be the comments of non-cognitivists...the disagreement would lie elsewhere.
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