(May 6, 2015 at 12:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(May 6, 2015 at 12:11 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Moral means the conduct necessary to maximally manifest a person’s potential.I like this definition, but it doesn't seem a popular one.
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It isn't popular because it is practically meaningless. One is potentially any number of things. One could try to maximize one's potential as a mass murderer, or as a child rapist, or any other thing. Somehow I doubt that many people are going to regard such maximization of potential as being moral.
Typically, what one adds to that sort of claim is some question-begging goal, and pretend that it is somehow objective for what one's "potential" is.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
