RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 13, 2019 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2019 at 5:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A fun non naturalist take on that question, Camus, goes like so.
I know that I shouldn’t strip a screw, but is it wrong?
GE Moore, open question.
For elaboration, there was a time when Moore contended that any reference to natural properties could be countered with that question. A command, verbal or by nature, is just as much a natural property as harm.
If that were true, then moral propositions couldn’t be reduced to natural properties, harm or command.
I know it hurts, I know there’s a normative prohibition. I know it’s (x) and (y), but is it wrong (z)?
I know that I shouldn’t strip a screw, but is it wrong?
GE Moore, open question.
For elaboration, there was a time when Moore contended that any reference to natural properties could be countered with that question. A command, verbal or by nature, is just as much a natural property as harm.
If that were true, then moral propositions couldn’t be reduced to natural properties, harm or command.
I know it hurts, I know there’s a normative prohibition. I know it’s (x) and (y), but is it wrong (z)?
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