RE: Subjective Morality?
October 18, 2018 at 6:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2018 at 6:09 am by robvalue.)
(October 17, 2018 at 6:51 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I have to be honest at this point-- I really don't understand what an objective moral might even be. It seems that any kind of objectivity or realism is just the imposition of outside influences on my actions. . . but an imposition based on OTHER people's subjective feelings and ideas about the way the world should be or how people should act.
Can someone give a super-simple example of objective morality, not buried under semantics or rhetoric?
Absolutely. I don’t know either. The best you can do is note trends. There’s no factual statement that you can guarantee everyone with agree with; perhaps, ironically, this itself is the moral fact! And they won’t agree on how you would even establish a moral fact or what it would mean.
There is always an underlying appeal to something: to emotion, to popularity, to personal opinion, to a nebulous underlying fact among poorly defined terms, to tribalism, to nature, to discomfort, to some analogy, and so on. As I point out in my video on the previous page, at some point a personal or group stance (or an arbitrary stance) has to be injected to bridge the is/ought gap.
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