RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
November 5, 2021 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2021 at 8:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, moral intuition is the ground of non-natural realism, so that's one way out. I don't find natural realism to be ambiguous, though. It's sort of hard to see how it could be as it leverages facts of a given matter and reports it's conclusions based upon those facts in specificity. It could be wrong, very wrong..but ambiguous?
That john may be more or less culpable for x than steve and we may not know exactly what to do about one, the other, or both in that event....doesn't create ambiguity. In that context, it's specifically accurate to (natural) facts about john and steve as individuals, for example.
All that said, that must be an interesting experience of moral content. Mine is different. I often do see how I can intervene to improve things, that I have enough information, that I trust my assessments, reflexively give care, and..the subject of moral intuition....apprehend good and bad. I think that some form of non natural realism is probably true with respect to how we experience morality - which would make it a good descriptive moral theory, like cultural relativism - but I do tend to believe that the thing informing our intuitions are natural facts. That's the basis of any harm-based ethical system.
That john may be more or less culpable for x than steve and we may not know exactly what to do about one, the other, or both in that event....doesn't create ambiguity. In that context, it's specifically accurate to (natural) facts about john and steve as individuals, for example.
All that said, that must be an interesting experience of moral content. Mine is different. I often do see how I can intervene to improve things, that I have enough information, that I trust my assessments, reflexively give care, and..the subject of moral intuition....apprehend good and bad. I think that some form of non natural realism is probably true with respect to how we experience morality - which would make it a good descriptive moral theory, like cultural relativism - but I do tend to believe that the thing informing our intuitions are natural facts. That's the basis of any harm-based ethical system.
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