(September 2, 2013 at 10:53 pm)genkaus Wrote:(September 2, 2013 at 12:33 pm)max-greece Wrote: For me that's it in a nutshell. A conceptual standard. One we can imagine and therefore one that doesn't actually have to exist otherwise.
If we can imagine a "moral ideal" then we can strive for it. Getting a common acceptance of that moral ideal would be easy in some areas - harder in others. In other words - typical of the sort of problems you might face applying an imagined standard to the real world.
However, we've applied similarly imagined standards objectively in other cases. We have standards for evidence, law, intelligence etc. But for some reason, we seem to think that applying morality in a similar fashion is impossible.
Read that several times - "However" fooled me - we agree entirely I think.
