RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 25, 2024 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2024 at 2:30 pm by Disagreeable.)
(July 25, 2024 at 12:33 pm)Lucian Wrote:(July 25, 2024 at 8:27 am)Disagreeable Wrote: I'm a moral realist because there are facts about which actions are most and least harmful.
I am still not because I can’t see an obvious link between harm and some mind-independent non-institutional categorical imperative existing as a property of the universe.
Do you think that there are only moral facts if they are mind-independent categorical imperatives? If so, why? Maybe there are facts about wrongness and maybe wrongness is about harm because that makes sense of moral language. Which is the metaethical point.
For me, the fact that there are facts about harmful actions is enough. Because wrongness is about harm.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
