RE: Good vs Evil
May 12, 2019 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2019 at 6:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The existence of dominance hierarchies does not lend support or credence to the proposition of moral realism. Those are subjectivists facts, facts about -us-. Our hereditary baggage may encourage us to see some thing x a particular way, but this is an argument against realism, not for it.
It can explain the origin of the apparatus used to apprehend (purportedly) objective values, but cannot be the source of those values. That said, the question remains valid. Why wouldn't there be an realist morality? I think you'll find the qualifier "at least to humanity" can be problematic. It shouldn't be, but it will be, lol.
*There's the outlier - here, though. It at least could be the case that our hereditary baggage got some moral x right by accident (at least with respect to realist context). It's a tough lift, but I think that all four broad categories of meta-ethical positions have some valid thing to add, as does the error theory.
It can explain the origin of the apparatus used to apprehend (purportedly) objective values, but cannot be the source of those values. That said, the question remains valid. Why wouldn't there be an realist morality? I think you'll find the qualifier "at least to humanity" can be problematic. It shouldn't be, but it will be, lol.
*There's the outlier - here, though. It at least could be the case that our hereditary baggage got some moral x right by accident (at least with respect to realist context). It's a tough lift, but I think that all four broad categories of meta-ethical positions have some valid thing to add, as does the error theory.
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