RE: Subjective Morality?
October 28, 2018 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2018 at 9:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 28, 2018 at 7:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote:I don't think that's true, personally.(October 28, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote: 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.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.
Quote: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.There are plenty of things I take to be wrong that I don't feel bad about. I'm sure there are plenty of other things taken to be wrong that are..more or less, just things that make this or that person feel icky. Those would not be "the preferred set" of moral justifications..to a realist.
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