RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 21, 2014 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 7:21 pm by Angrboda.)
(July 21, 2014 at 3:31 pm)SteveII Wrote: We DO perceive that objective moral values and duties exist. Why would we not trust this perception? We perceive myriads of other things and trust those perceptions.
We perceive that the earth is flat, but we know that perception is an illusion. Perception alone is seldom truly reliable.
I don't believe in objective morality, but neither am I a moral relativist. Biology and culture conspire to create moral sensations which, because they are intuitive, can't be easily reasoned about. That's why they appear objective.