RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 27, 2024 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2024 at 12:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We pick up and drop moral principles at our convenience no matter what the metaethical reality is. So I don't think that any moral anything is binding in that way, or that there's a "moral force" if that's what you mean. You can report a fact. You can't make people care about facts or even that fact if they otherwise do care about facts. I like to think we're persuadable - but we're also specifically incompetent...so......might be a wash, lol.
Universalism is a heavy lift for me, too. I think you'd have to believe at least one of two things to be a moral universalist. Either that the specific facts of a matter have never or can never change, or that the specific facts of a matter are not the truth making properties. The first seems demonstrably false, and the latter is anti-realist (insomuch as it rejects objectivity as a/the moral making property).
Universalism is a heavy lift for me, too. I think you'd have to believe at least one of two things to be a moral universalist. Either that the specific facts of a matter have never or can never change, or that the specific facts of a matter are not the truth making properties. The first seems demonstrably false, and the latter is anti-realist (insomuch as it rejects objectivity as a/the moral making property).
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