RE: Moral Oughts
August 1, 2019 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
For your questions to me, before and after. Whenever I find myself in a difficult scenario with moral import, I try to scrutinize my intended course of action before the fact, and after the fact.
Other times I just blow right through those situations knowingly or unknowingly and have to reasses my actions after the fact.
I think grand pointed something important our. All of our personal motivations are subjective in the sense that they’re ours...but that’s not enough to describe the contents as subjective in the sense relevant to moral philosophy.
Consider, Acro, you also feel deeply personally motivated, but don’t think that this makes your morality subjective.
Other times I just blow right through those situations knowingly or unknowingly and have to reasses my actions after the fact.
I think grand pointed something important our. All of our personal motivations are subjective in the sense that they’re ours...but that’s not enough to describe the contents as subjective in the sense relevant to moral philosophy.
Consider, Acro, you also feel deeply personally motivated, but don’t think that this makes your morality subjective.
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