RE: An Argument Against Hedonistic Moral Realism
June 14, 2019 at 1:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2019 at 1:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 14, 2019 at 11:29 am)SenseMaker007 Wrote: Hedonists think that causing pain is only bad because pain is bad and causing pleasure is only good because pleasure is good. And pain and pleasure is mind-dependent. That's the point. This isn't rocket science.No, it's not rocket science. Since things really do cause pleasure and pain, since it's not just our opinion that they do - this notion is mind independent in the sense being discussed by ethical theorists.
If I ask you "does cutting off a persons arm really hurt, or is it just your opinion that it hurts" - what would your response be?
Perhaps, btw, you've seen too many moral realists assert that moral realism has to be mind independant because its a defining criteria of what the position refers to? If moral x's are not mind independent, then they're subjectivist moral x's, not realist moral x's. Food for thought.
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