RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
July 19, 2022 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2022 at 11:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Moral, and morale, are not synonyms. Morals would only be synonymous with emotions if noncognitivism were true. If no moral statement purported any true or false thing about any subject, society, or object.
To violate morale, is to be a debbie downer.... but sure, to violate a moral standard is to violate some understanding of right and wrong which may or may not forbid hypocrisy or inflicting pain on another..and may or may not include justifications or exemptions from typical moral desert in the case of exclusively sub-optimal decision fields - but only if cognitivism is true and emotivism is false. I cannot, for example, violate your taste in ice cream. If you eat vanilla and think "Yum!" or "Yay!" and that's all you mean by a thing being morally right or morally wrong - my eating vanilla icecream and thinking "Yuck!" or "Not again!" does nothing to you, nor would my thinking yum or yay about chocolate ice cream be a violation of the same.
Emotivist moral virtues, as I commented on earlier in thread, really don't fit into the framework of maximizing anything. You already like what you like, dislike what you dislike. Maximizing virtue conceived of as nothing more than this is just being, I suppose, more of yourself.
To violate morale, is to be a debbie downer.... but sure, to violate a moral standard is to violate some understanding of right and wrong which may or may not forbid hypocrisy or inflicting pain on another..and may or may not include justifications or exemptions from typical moral desert in the case of exclusively sub-optimal decision fields - but only if cognitivism is true and emotivism is false. I cannot, for example, violate your taste in ice cream. If you eat vanilla and think "Yum!" or "Yay!" and that's all you mean by a thing being morally right or morally wrong - my eating vanilla icecream and thinking "Yuck!" or "Not again!" does nothing to you, nor would my thinking yum or yay about chocolate ice cream be a violation of the same.
Emotivist moral virtues, as I commented on earlier in thread, really don't fit into the framework of maximizing anything. You already like what you like, dislike what you dislike. Maximizing virtue conceived of as nothing more than this is just being, I suppose, more of yourself.
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