RE: Subjective Morality?
November 9, 2018 at 10:08 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2018 at 10:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Buddy, lol....I think that it is, but that position is not open to a non-cognitivist. Which is why I reject non-cognitivism. I need only refer to the fact that I have beliefs about moral things. That my own moral positions are expressions of those states of belief..to know that non-cognitivism is very likely to be wrong.
They would have to try to convince me that my believing that I believe things is an elaborate ruse (and they do..!)
That, btw, is motherfuckin progress! Fist-bump.
Now we know that you and I are both cognitivists. We both think that a moral proposition can express a state of belief. We think that morality is about something, that we hold to be true. So...for us "-show me how/give me a single example of- it's not just feelings" is a closed door of objection, because we have a commitment to cognitivism, now.
(and we can also state that at least some meta ethicists were right about something, as we see it )
They would have to try to convince me that my believing that I believe things is an elaborate ruse (and they do..!)
That, btw, is motherfuckin progress! Fist-bump.
Now we know that you and I are both cognitivists. We both think that a moral proposition can express a state of belief. We think that morality is about something, that we hold to be true. So...for us "-show me how/give me a single example of- it's not just feelings" is a closed door of objection, because we have a commitment to cognitivism, now.
(and we can also state that at least some meta ethicists were right about something, as we see it )
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