RE: Subjective Morality?
November 8, 2018 at 6:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2018 at 7:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, the why being the operative part.
Rape is wrong = "Yuck!"
-non cognitivism.
Rape is wrong because -insert reference to relevant facts about your opinion, the act, or it's consequences here-
-a cognitive moral position that is true which could be subjectivism or realism.
Between those two you have error theory, which doesn't so much deny that there are or could be facts, as it suggests that for whatever reason or no reason we do not have access to them, or if we do, we butcher that access. Beyond non cognitivism, every position refers to a moral fact of a matter - a moral fact. The fact that makes something wrong, to a subjectivist, is a fact of our holding some particular opinion, which is mind dependent. If we didn't hold that opinion, as a point of fact..and opinions were what made things wrong, then x wouldn't be wrong. If we changed our opinion then x wouldn't be wrong. Nothing about the act has to change. No reference to any specifics about the act need to be made. Consequences are irrelevant. There is no mediation between those opinions and some environment, and a subjectivist can consider some thing they think is abhorrent to be the right thing to do - or some thing they really like to be the wrong thing to do.
Rape is wrong = "Yuck!"
-non cognitivism.
Rape is wrong because -insert reference to relevant facts about your opinion, the act, or it's consequences here-
-a cognitive moral position that is true which could be subjectivism or realism.
Between those two you have error theory, which doesn't so much deny that there are or could be facts, as it suggests that for whatever reason or no reason we do not have access to them, or if we do, we butcher that access. Beyond non cognitivism, every position refers to a moral fact of a matter - a moral fact. The fact that makes something wrong, to a subjectivist, is a fact of our holding some particular opinion, which is mind dependent. If we didn't hold that opinion, as a point of fact..and opinions were what made things wrong, then x wouldn't be wrong. If we changed our opinion then x wouldn't be wrong. Nothing about the act has to change. No reference to any specifics about the act need to be made. Consequences are irrelevant. There is no mediation between those opinions and some environment, and a subjectivist can consider some thing they think is abhorrent to be the right thing to do - or some thing they really like to be the wrong thing to do.
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