(July 9, 2013 at 1:49 am)Inigo Wrote: Yes, morality could be a hallucination. I take it that for morality to 'exist' at least some statements of the form 'Xing is wrong' or 'Xing is right' would need to be true. And if we mean by 'wrong' something that is instructed 'not to be done' and that we thereby have inescapable reason not to do, then I think such statements will only be true if a god of a certain sort exists.
Wrong. The salient feature of the most motivating moral impulses is not captured by saying it is "wrong" and that "it must not be done". The most salient feature of these moral impulses are that they repulse us; the acts repel us viscerally, not intellectually. To stress the interpretation you give it betrays a lack of moral maturity. "It must not be done" is how it seems to those who experience morality as rule following. Compliance is not a sufficient rationale for a moral adult.
