RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
October 11, 2021 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2021 at 11:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Massively informed by our society - descriptive relativism. The difference between descriptive relativism and metaethical relativism is that descriptive relativism says that this is what people do (and we certainly do). Metaethical relativism says that's what morality is. That what is right and wrong is determined by your society - not that your society holds common opinions with varying levels of assent which inform you.
I think that our ability to disagree with our cultural mores is a pretty good demonstration that even as descriptive relativism is undeniably true, metaethical relativism is demonstrably false. It's a pretty simple failure condition. All we need to do is point to some thing our society deems so and so, and genuinely disagree. We don't even have to get it right, just disagree. Easy peasy for people.
I think that our ability to disagree with our cultural mores is a pretty good demonstration that even as descriptive relativism is undeniably true, metaethical relativism is demonstrably false. It's a pretty simple failure condition. All we need to do is point to some thing our society deems so and so, and genuinely disagree. We don't even have to get it right, just disagree. Easy peasy for people.
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