RE: Moral Oughts
August 4, 2019 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 10:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Objective facts don’t negate a materialistic account. Even a platonic account of morality doesn’t negate a materialistic account of the world.
A person can hold both. They’re generally dualists. They think that some things are best explained by x, and others by y. Morality, perhaps, by ideals....the world by material.
- with some defining criteria separating the two.
You’re clearly abusive the term objective by reducing it to refer solely to your own beliefs, which you’ve failed to establish as objective in the first place.
You just believe they are. That’s s fact about you. Not a fact about morality, or even your own morality. Your own beliefs about my morality are a proper fact about you, even...since you won’t unclog your ears when you ask questions.
If you could figure ought how to establish that your beliefs refer to some fact about morality, or even your own morality, then you could learn to identify the objective and subjective components of a given moral theory.
TLDR version. Your silly god doesn’t own facts.
A person can hold both. They’re generally dualists. They think that some things are best explained by x, and others by y. Morality, perhaps, by ideals....the world by material.
- with some defining criteria separating the two.
You’re clearly abusive the term objective by reducing it to refer solely to your own beliefs, which you’ve failed to establish as objective in the first place.
You just believe they are. That’s s fact about you. Not a fact about morality, or even your own morality. Your own beliefs about my morality are a proper fact about you, even...since you won’t unclog your ears when you ask questions.
If you could figure ought how to establish that your beliefs refer to some fact about morality, or even your own morality, then you could learn to identify the objective and subjective components of a given moral theory.
TLDR version. Your silly god doesn’t own facts.
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