RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
May 13, 2019 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2019 at 2:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
All moral knowledge was non-natural, metaphysical in that sense, at least in moore's conception.
In the limited scope of the debate between non natural and natural realists, I'll say this for moore. If nothing else, he explained how realism didn't require naturalism so strictly defined. Leaving realists, and particularly natural realists, in the position of being able to say. "Well, this is our best explanation, but it doesn't have to be accurate to establish a realist concept".
The margin between some empirical thing about an act being "bad" and some empirical thing about an act just so happening to fit the non-empirical mold of what we call "bad" is slim - they can lend support to the same moral systems without modifying effect. Health and well-being are similarly ambiguous terms seen in this light for the same reasons. I wonder how many people might be willing to consider either of those non-natural in the relevant sense?
In the limited scope of the debate between non natural and natural realists, I'll say this for moore. If nothing else, he explained how realism didn't require naturalism so strictly defined. Leaving realists, and particularly natural realists, in the position of being able to say. "Well, this is our best explanation, but it doesn't have to be accurate to establish a realist concept".
The margin between some empirical thing about an act being "bad" and some empirical thing about an act just so happening to fit the non-empirical mold of what we call "bad" is slim - they can lend support to the same moral systems without modifying effect. Health and well-being are similarly ambiguous terms seen in this light for the same reasons. I wonder how many people might be willing to consider either of those non-natural in the relevant sense?
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