RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 31, 2019 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2019 at 5:15 pm by Acrobat.)
(January 31, 2019 at 4:05 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:(January 31, 2019 at 4:00 pm)Acrobat Wrote: No that’s why I’m asking you the question.
Of whether goodness and badness are material properties , that exist independent of our minds?
You don't understand why you'd have to know something about my morality before claiming to know something about my morality?
As to the other. This has been very simple from the outset. I think that goodness and badness refer to material properties. Some act x either possesses those properties or it does not.
You don’t see why saying what you said here, can come off as contradicting what you were implying here:
“No one thinks that we'll be filling any holes in the periodic table with goodium and badium.”
The implication of the above being, that good and bad don’t exist as the material properties of x, like we might say of molecules, or bricks, or other material components of x.
(January 31, 2019 at 4:34 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It is a historic (or empirical) fact that the nazis were tossing jews into ovens.
Tossing jews into ovens possesses those properties to which we are referring when we call something bad.
Tossing jews into the ovens possess all the properties of tossing Jews into the oven, that’s it.
A pizza from dominos possess all the properties in which I am referring to as (tastes) good. The correct proportion of cheese to meat ratio, the correct degree of crispness, etc..
Therefore good is a material property of dominos pizza.
