RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
July 12, 2019 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2019 at 8:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Us the statement that knowledge can never be objective an objectively true statement?
Objectivity, in ethics or anything else, simply refers to statements which purport to report facts and which do report the contents of those facts accurately. Its not a problem for the reporter to have experienced that content.
Your knowledge of your own name is derived from experience. We can (and do) acknowledge that human experience, and the apparatus of human experience present difficulties for any objective assessment - but a blanket rejection of the category is insensible and reduces the statements made to support its own contention into a self defeating morass.
Succinctly, if there is no knowledge, then there can be no knowledge of there being no knowledge - and even this statement cannot be known to be true. Repeat ad infinitum.
Objectivity, in ethics or anything else, simply refers to statements which purport to report facts and which do report the contents of those facts accurately. Its not a problem for the reporter to have experienced that content.
Your knowledge of your own name is derived from experience. We can (and do) acknowledge that human experience, and the apparatus of human experience present difficulties for any objective assessment - but a blanket rejection of the category is insensible and reduces the statements made to support its own contention into a self defeating morass.
Succinctly, if there is no knowledge, then there can be no knowledge of there being no knowledge - and even this statement cannot be known to be true. Repeat ad infinitum.
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