RE: Subjective Morality?
November 7, 2018 at 12:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2018 at 12:11 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(November 7, 2018 at 11:49 am)bennyboy Wrote: What represents self-interest? It is the sense of agency. It think, therefore I am, isn't just a general sense of qualia, IMO, it's also a mythological archetype-- that of the individual agency of self. Benjamin isn't so much a thing, as a complex of ideas and feelings attached to a name.
Careful there, bennyboy. By criticizing the logic or coherence of an ethical theory, and asking the question "What represents self-interest?" you'd be doing moral philosophy... the kind that assumes the existence of moral facts...
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Oh great then. The matter is settled. Morality is just as real as my friend Ben. I do have a friend named Ben, and he is very real to me. So when you say moral facts aren't real, you mean it in the sense that my friend Ben isn't real. What did you call him? A complex of ideas and feelings? Okay. I'll be sure to tell him you said that.
When you first said that you doubted the existence of moral facts, I thought you were saying that they were less real than my friend Ben. Now I understand your position: they are only as real as my friend Ben. I agree with you there. And I'm glad we're on the same page now.
