RE: Subjective Morality?
October 28, 2018 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2018 at 7:42 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 28, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote:Because feelings are highly subjective, and they are they basis for a moral sense, and the essence of any moral system. Things are only good or bad because a person or collective of people finds them unpleasant.(October 28, 2018 at 9:16 am)bennyboy Wrote: I don't think moral reason can or does make the claim, "Mores are a mediation among feelings, ideas, and environmental factors."You'd have to explain why you think that, or why you bolded the word feelings. There's no obvious incongruity between the statement and a realist pov, realism doesn't deny the existence feelings.......or the need for moral systems to take them into account. Misery is a feeling, the general proposition "Causing misery is bad" either purports to report a fact, gets that fact right..and so is true.....or it doesn't.
And moral systems, in my opinion, don't take feelings "into account." They are the verbal representation of feelings. I don't think you can find a single more which is not at its essence just a verbalization of something that makes people feel bad.