(July 2, 2013 at 7:08 pm)Inigo Wrote: No, I see morality as composed of the instructions and favourings of an agent, a person, a mind. For I think only something like that is in the business of instructing, commanding, favouring and so on. Is a mind a physical thing? I do not think so, but some do - but it is beside the point.
These 'instructions and favoring' as you call them are only products of your own mind, or at least a part of your mind. It is only illusion that you think they are coming from another person. Some things seem more favorable because the consequence of doing the opposite would have an unfavorable effect in your own mind(signals of pain). Your mind gives you the reasons later. And it is possible to have a reason to go against a part of your own mind. You might have a sensation that tells you someone else is conferring reasoning to you. Maybe you are talking to yourself. Everyone does that. So?
Morality is composed of your own minds built in instructions and outputs. It is based off your own beliefs. Not only that, it is your own beliefs about what you should and shouldn't do based off those same built in instructions. Backtrack to the evolutionary theory part of this thread. You probably won't.
There is nothing to back up your points that there is an actual intelligence at all times giving you favor ever time you do something good. What you think is meaningless since you have no reason to believe it. It really seems like you are just ignoring everything anyone posts on here and you are just continuing to just repeat your premises over and over. hmm...
Quote:No, I see morality as composed of the instructions and favourings of an agent, a person, a mind.
Quote: You said morality exists only in the sense that a theory exists. That is another way of saying morality does not exist'.So you agree. Morality doesn't exist according to your own definition. It is instructions/concepts from an agent.
