RE: Moral Oughts
August 3, 2019 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2019 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Lol. Of course oughts follow from moral facts, and at least one evaluative premise.
Unclog your ears.
You can’t go from is to ought without one.
Stealing is wrong
Therefore you shouldn’t steal
....doesn’t actually follow.
As for instrumental goods and intrinsic goods, moral statements play heavily with those two concepts.
We often consider our “is”-es to be representative of intrinsic goods. Our evaluative premises dip heavily into instrumental goods. Good for confirming to our moral schema. Good for generating positive consequence. Good for our mental state.
Moore has a wonderful comment on how we experience morality as a brute fact.
All you have to do to teach a person what “bad” is, is make them stand there watching four adults kick a toddler.
All of their evaluative premises will flow from having seen this and contemplating their relationship to it. Subjective premises, objective ones, considerations of instrumental and intrinsic goods.
In his view, all were rational but non empirical products. Insomuch as he considered the experience of that event and the subsequent thought processes beyond empirical verification.
Hence his non natural realism. This sort of realism reverses the distribution above. More intrinsic goods, fewer instrumental. Seeing Bad in things, rather than seeing Things that are bad.
Unclog your ears.
You can’t go from is to ought without one.
Stealing is wrong
Therefore you shouldn’t steal
....doesn’t actually follow.
As for instrumental goods and intrinsic goods, moral statements play heavily with those two concepts.
We often consider our “is”-es to be representative of intrinsic goods. Our evaluative premises dip heavily into instrumental goods. Good for confirming to our moral schema. Good for generating positive consequence. Good for our mental state.
Moore has a wonderful comment on how we experience morality as a brute fact.
All you have to do to teach a person what “bad” is, is make them stand there watching four adults kick a toddler.
All of their evaluative premises will flow from having seen this and contemplating their relationship to it. Subjective premises, objective ones, considerations of instrumental and intrinsic goods.
In his view, all were rational but non empirical products. Insomuch as he considered the experience of that event and the subsequent thought processes beyond empirical verification.
Hence his non natural realism. This sort of realism reverses the distribution above. More intrinsic goods, fewer instrumental. Seeing Bad in things, rather than seeing Things that are bad.
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