RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 9:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
All words are defined axiomatically. The only reason that “cat” means “cat”, is that we’ve decided to use that term in reference to them.
Some of us (an argument could be made that all of us) have axiomatically decided that when we speak of good and bad we are referring to help and harm.
Others, have decided axiomatically that they are referring to the presence or absence of a god.
The former has, at least, the potential to be specific and objective. The latter does not.
Perhaps what you see as reluctance and lack of confidence is, in fact, a greater understanding of the moral field. Acknowledgement of the weaknesses of human intuition and arguments from pure intuition. Sure, they may think that something is objectively bad, but it’s nit as if human beings haven’t gotten that wrong before. It’s one thing to certify the concept, and another entirely to assert that one has possession of the set of contents.
In mere reality, the set of our moral positions is a mix between non cognitive, subjective, objective, and just plain false propositions. Each broad category of meta ethical theory has something valid to contribute to that set.
Some of us (an argument could be made that all of us) have axiomatically decided that when we speak of good and bad we are referring to help and harm.
Others, have decided axiomatically that they are referring to the presence or absence of a god.
The former has, at least, the potential to be specific and objective. The latter does not.
Perhaps what you see as reluctance and lack of confidence is, in fact, a greater understanding of the moral field. Acknowledgement of the weaknesses of human intuition and arguments from pure intuition. Sure, they may think that something is objectively bad, but it’s nit as if human beings haven’t gotten that wrong before. It’s one thing to certify the concept, and another entirely to assert that one has possession of the set of contents.
In mere reality, the set of our moral positions is a mix between non cognitive, subjective, objective, and just plain false propositions. Each broad category of meta ethical theory has something valid to contribute to that set.
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