RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 27, 2022 at 7:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2022 at 8:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Wildly untrue. Is this mistaken belief part of your distaste for a material monism, by chance? In a material monism (or an immaterial monism, or a mixed dualism, or -keep multiplying substances to infinity if we like-) moral values may be noncognitive, or cognitive, or just plain wrong. Of the cognitive moral values some may be subjective, some may be relative, and others may be objective. None of these categories is predicate on what the world is made out of, or how many types of stuff there are.
When speaking of maximizing moral virtue we can be confident that a person is considering the set of objective moral values and this..even if there aren't any - if it's an empty set. That's still what they're considering - we'd just say wrongly or contrary to fact, in that instance.
I think it's fascinating...because it's difficult to say that we don't live in a world of mixed moral values regardless of what this world is made of. The subjective or relative moral value of praying to allah five times a day - in order to maximize virtue, for example..is a thing - but it's not an objective moral imperative. There's no indication that it makes people more moral, and it's insistence relies on a subject's dictation alone.
When speaking of maximizing moral virtue we can be confident that a person is considering the set of objective moral values and this..even if there aren't any - if it's an empty set. That's still what they're considering - we'd just say wrongly or contrary to fact, in that instance.
I think it's fascinating...because it's difficult to say that we don't live in a world of mixed moral values regardless of what this world is made of. The subjective or relative moral value of praying to allah five times a day - in order to maximize virtue, for example..is a thing - but it's not an objective moral imperative. There's no indication that it makes people more moral, and it's insistence relies on a subject's dictation alone.
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