RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution.
June 11, 2012 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2012 at 8:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why couldn't an objective morality be both irrational or illogical as well as objective? Wouldn't any currently existing morality be objective so long as we limited what group of individuals we are considering. Would beings from the planet Slitznarp also have to follow this morality, and in standing next to a being from the planet Slitnarp who does not follow this morality could it still then be called objective?
It's not that I can't see where you're coming from, but that the terms used to describe this morality do have a bit of jargon going for them in that their meanings are perhaps slightly altered by the concept which you wish to propose (not an issue so long as we're on-board with the idea that objective; as it pertains to morality and within the confines of this discussion merely means that all human beings agree. I only offer the hypothetical Slitznarpian above to show that there would be similarities with this agreed upon or objective morality with all moralities currently in existence in that they can very much appear to be objective 9so long as you define the set) until confronted with a dissenter.)
It's not that I can't see where you're coming from, but that the terms used to describe this morality do have a bit of jargon going for them in that their meanings are perhaps slightly altered by the concept which you wish to propose (not an issue so long as we're on-board with the idea that objective; as it pertains to morality and within the confines of this discussion merely means that all human beings agree. I only offer the hypothetical Slitznarpian above to show that there would be similarities with this agreed upon or objective morality with all moralities currently in existence in that they can very much appear to be objective 9so long as you define the set) until confronted with a dissenter.)
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