RE: Metaethics Part 1: Cognitivism/Non-cognitivism
February 11, 2022 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2022 at 3:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Absolutely. We do all of that stuff. The trouble for non cognitivism is that to maintain it as a metaethical theory you're claiming that no moral claim can be true or false.
That's not how our societies operate, it's not how we apprehend our own moral claims, and it would suggest that similar propositions in non moral claims, even, are also not truth apt.
Put another way, it's not uncommon to find people objecting to objective morality - but for non cognitivism to be true, subjectivism must be false. A person says that they believe in a thing for reasons x y and z. Now, you might point out their reasons are a-factual, but to deny moral subjectivism is to deny their apprehension of those things, those apprehensions as the cause of the moral claim. They don't really think what they say they think, that's not why they say "x is bad".
That's not how our societies operate, it's not how we apprehend our own moral claims, and it would suggest that similar propositions in non moral claims, even, are also not truth apt.
Put another way, it's not uncommon to find people objecting to objective morality - but for non cognitivism to be true, subjectivism must be false. A person says that they believe in a thing for reasons x y and z. Now, you might point out their reasons are a-factual, but to deny moral subjectivism is to deny their apprehension of those things, those apprehensions as the cause of the moral claim. They don't really think what they say they think, that's not why they say "x is bad".
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