RE: Subjective Morality?
October 28, 2018 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2018 at 9:55 am by bennyboy.)
(October 28, 2018 at 6:09 am)Khemikal Wrote:I don't think moral reason can or does make the claim, "Mores are a mediation among feelings, ideas, and environmental factors."(October 28, 2018 at 5:40 am)bennyboy Wrote: My position is super simple. Mores are a mediation among feelings, ideas, and environmental factors, but they exist only as ideas. Fortunately, there's a word for that.There are alot of words for positions that can make that claim. Realism is among them.
(October 28, 2018 at 6:09 am)Khemikal Wrote: The moral positions of bats or volgons would be objective or subjective or other for the same reasons.The moral positions of bats or volgons would be different, because what it's like to be a bat or a volgon is different than what it's like to be a human being. They will have different feelings about things.
If you want to argue that there are statistically normal feelings or mechanisms in people which lead them to behave a certain way, then that can be an objective basis for understanding morality. But even then, it doesn't make mores objectively real.