RE: The Struggle to do Good
June 2, 2020 at 8:32 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2020 at 8:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You'd have to have that discussion with someone who wasn't a moral realist, wouldn't you, Broken?
The question is better posed to you, in all likelihood. If you believe that good and bad are decided by god-relative tastes, then you are in no way a moral realist. How would you convince me, a moral realist, that your subjectivist morality had any merit whatsoever?
Further, if the propositions of that subjectivist morality must be beamed into your skull for you to even be aware of them, in what way are you a competent moral agent, or a moral agent at all?
The question is better posed to you, in all likelihood. If you believe that good and bad are decided by god-relative tastes, then you are in no way a moral realist. How would you convince me, a moral realist, that your subjectivist morality had any merit whatsoever?
Further, if the propositions of that subjectivist morality must be beamed into your skull for you to even be aware of them, in what way are you a competent moral agent, or a moral agent at all?
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