RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
November 5, 2021 at 7:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2021 at 8:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The idea of a moral intuition is that it's not a blank in perception. It's a bare apprehension. Literally, that you "know" bad when you see it. That you don't go through some lengthy moral argument immediately prior to any moral apprehension. That, for at least some bad, if a person asked you how you knew it was bad, the most honest anserer you could give was "here, come take a look at it being done, you tell me..is that bad?"
I want to lay aside whether or not it's a misapprehension. Because moral intuition allows for a situation where we aren't 100% reliable - some of our intuitions, at least, can be wrong - but also because it doesn't matter whether it's an accurate or inaccurate apprehension with respect to whether or not a person has moral intuitions.
So, to really needle in on that, I get that your intellectual position is one of ambiguity. Is that how you experience moral content, though? The question of whether or not we can trust our moral intuitions presumes that we have them. Do you have moral intuitions, have you found them to be trustworthy?
I want to lay aside whether or not it's a misapprehension. Because moral intuition allows for a situation where we aren't 100% reliable - some of our intuitions, at least, can be wrong - but also because it doesn't matter whether it's an accurate or inaccurate apprehension with respect to whether or not a person has moral intuitions.
So, to really needle in on that, I get that your intellectual position is one of ambiguity. Is that how you experience moral content, though? The question of whether or not we can trust our moral intuitions presumes that we have them. Do you have moral intuitions, have you found them to be trustworthy?
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