RE: Objective Morality, Anyone?
March 16, 2014 at 4:19 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 4:39 am by Mudhammam.)
(March 16, 2014 at 4:02 am)tor Wrote: So morality is just opinion and personal preferences?
How do you arrive there? Is the sensation of pain simply opinion or preference? Or are there objective, measureable states of reality that underly all our subjective perceptions? That's the position I tend to take.
Hume said we cannot derive an ought from an is. But he was wrong because we all do. That's where morality enters. Since there is presumably an objective reality that we are all a part of, our subjective perceptions are likely to agree about many of the basic principles in which morality is grounded.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza