(March 17, 2026 at 5:53 pm)Disagreeable Wrote:(March 17, 2026 at 4:02 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: I'm saying that you don't have moral agreement. You have what's fashionable today.
And assuming that moral agreement is just "what's fashionable today" is just question-begging again.
In his book After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre argues that we currently lack the grounding to make morality into anything other than current fashion.
A lot of people have found his argument against that idea to be persuasive. The book clarifies a number of issues about the problem, even if you don't end up agreeing with it. (Though a surprising number of people from different backgrounds have ended up agreeing with it in whole or in part.)
It's not the kind of book we can discuss here, but I think you'd probably enjoy it, if you haven't tried it yet.
