RE: Subjective Morality?
November 11, 2018 at 7:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 7:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 11, 2018 at 7:06 am)bennyboy Wrote: My big toe exists, too,Awesome, great, and it's facts like that to which a moral realist refers when determining what is right or wrong.
Quote:but until you can establish some reason for doing so, I'm not going to call it an objective moral fact.I'm only telling you that these are the sorts of facts that -my- moral facts are constituted of. You can call them whatever you want.
Quote:If for some reason you get excited about my big toe, and develop real feelings about what should be done about it, I can see that you might possibly come up with some objective fact about my big toe to support your view on your "ought" idea.Well that's that, then. The kinds of facts to which I would refer are capable of supporting my "ought" ideas. When I tell you that you ought not do this bad thing..I can explain why by reference to a mind independent fact of the matter. Which is a moral matter. But...for whatever reason, we're not calling a moral fact, today.
Tada, you've just agreed with moral realism.
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