RE: Morality
January 22, 2019 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2019 at 12:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 22, 2019 at 12:05 pm)Acrobat Wrote:What part of this do you think is arguing with me?(January 22, 2019 at 11:40 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: -and a realist maintains that it is rooted in facts that we can observe. Gee, I sure am glad we cleared that up.......
No a moral realist, believes moral facts and moral values exist and "that these are objective and independent of our perception of them or our beliefs, feelings or other attitudes towards them. Therefore, moral judgments describe moral facts, which are as certain in their own way as mathematical facts." Or in other words a realist, believes in an objective moral reality, and not in morality as a human construct as subjectivist and relativist positions might convey.
Quote:This shouldn't be conflated with a moral subjectivist, who might consider certain garden variety facts, such as negative consequences as informing their moral judgements. Just because certain facts might inform your moral opinion, doesn't make you a moral realist.I thought we already cleared up the little known fact that moral realists and moral subjectivists were different things, lol?
Was there some question you had about non-natural moral realism, or some particular objection to the claim it makes....or no? That there are objective facts of good and bad...that these facts are not, themselves, natural.
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