RE: Morality
May 19, 2023 at 9:03 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2023 at 9:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nominal (and committed) subjectivists often make moral pronouncements as though they are facts, sure. It's either a tick of language or a disparity between apprehension and reality.
What I think you'll find difficult to communicate, is how they would be borrowing (either linguistically or conceptually) from some christian morality, rather than an objective morality - by using objectivist language or employing objectivist assertions.
Ultimately "how subjectivists talk" is not a determinative metaethical question, though. No matter how they talk, the claim that the nature of morality is subjective, that it is a description of items based exclusively on the state or nature of a given subject, is either true or false. You don't disagree with atheist subjectivists on the nature of morality. You disagree with them on the existence of a god. You make the same fact-pretending comments while espousing a subjectivist moral understanding. If you wanted to talk about other moral systems, like objectivist moral systems, we can do that?
What I think you'll find difficult to communicate, is how they would be borrowing (either linguistically or conceptually) from some christian morality, rather than an objective morality - by using objectivist language or employing objectivist assertions.
Ultimately "how subjectivists talk" is not a determinative metaethical question, though. No matter how they talk, the claim that the nature of morality is subjective, that it is a description of items based exclusively on the state or nature of a given subject, is either true or false. You don't disagree with atheist subjectivists on the nature of morality. You disagree with them on the existence of a god. You make the same fact-pretending comments while espousing a subjectivist moral understanding. If you wanted to talk about other moral systems, like objectivist moral systems, we can do that?
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