RE: Subjective Morality?
November 9, 2018 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2018 at 7:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Ask a person the simplest question in the world, one which they don't need to know anything other than their own mind about, and you get this, lol.
Look, either you have beliefs or you don't..but if you don't know whether or not you have beliefs...how do you know that you believe that you don't know you have beliefs?
Look, either you have beliefs or you don't..but if you don't know whether or not you have beliefs...how do you know that you believe that you don't know you have beliefs?
(November 9, 2018 at 7:10 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm resisting the word "belief" because I find it undefined. What does it mean to believe something? Simply to have an idea, and to suspect that it represents truth in some context?Yes.
Quote:I read "believe" as "think that an idea represents objective truth."Subjectivists and error theorists are also cognitivists who also make moral statements and statements about morality that they believe to be true. There is no foot, stop trying to get out from under it before it falls. If you're a subjectivist (or a moral non naturalist) then you're going to hop off the train at some point..but not this point. This is the one thing that literally -everyone- who isn't a non cognitivist agrees on. Points of view with fundamental and intractable differences between them, farther up the chain, mutually assert that we possess moral beliefs, and that our moral propositions express them...and you have categorically closed the non cognitivist door with your own description of morality.
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