RE: “Normative” ethical theories
September 21, 2025 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2025 at 2:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What is it about a given natural fact that makes it an airplane one and makes it different from physics or putting it in terms of actions? If we're looking for a "more" there, natural realism doesn't contain or require it.
In the context of a hypothetical world where ethical realism is in actuality an empty set and we have properly realized or can demonstrate as much, there is still the observation that we communicate ethical assertions this way out of habit or a lack of discipline. It's one thing to conceieve of an ethics absent such content. I think that can be done, (rightly or wrongly in metaethical fact). Another to communicate a practical ethics on that basis. That's more difficult. We fall into a series of as-though assertions. That's what I mean when I say realist conceit.
In the context of a hypothetical world where ethical realism is in actuality an empty set and we have properly realized or can demonstrate as much, there is still the observation that we communicate ethical assertions this way out of habit or a lack of discipline. It's one thing to conceieve of an ethics absent such content. I think that can be done, (rightly or wrongly in metaethical fact). Another to communicate a practical ethics on that basis. That's more difficult. We fall into a series of as-though assertions. That's what I mean when I say realist conceit.
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