RE: An Argument Against Hedonistic Moral Realism
June 14, 2019 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2019 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You might not be talking about mind dependence the same way that ethical theorists are.
Any moral theory can agree that all of this stuff happens in our brains. That pleasure and pain are mind dependent, in that way.
Mind independence in moral theory concerns itself with the reference of the phenomena rather than it's production or the apparatus used.
From the hedonists pov, because there really are things in the world that really do cause pleasure or pain, those concepts of ours, that our brain produces, are not mind dependent. Their truth relies on the truth of some variable exterior to them, exterior to their minds.
Any moral theory can agree that all of this stuff happens in our brains. That pleasure and pain are mind dependent, in that way.
Mind independence in moral theory concerns itself with the reference of the phenomena rather than it's production or the apparatus used.
From the hedonists pov, because there really are things in the world that really do cause pleasure or pain, those concepts of ours, that our brain produces, are not mind dependent. Their truth relies on the truth of some variable exterior to them, exterior to their minds.
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