RE: In Defense of a Non-Natural Moral Order
August 22, 2019 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2019 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 22, 2019 at 10:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 22, 2019 at 10:15 am)Acrobat Wrote: People across cultures do have what's a called core morality. One that's shared universally across culture, social and political environments, etc.. You can take a variety of moral questions, and learn that people across the board respond to them very similarly. This core morality seems to be the foundation for their moral views, even if some aspects verge out particularly unique ways among them, particular when they involve competing moral principles.
But you're still not addressing those things which are assigned different moral values in different cultures.
Boru
Addressing that, from the realist POV, doesn’t require any shared core. It’s simply accepted as an observed fact. Whatever the true nature of morality is, descriptive relativism is true.
Moral disagreement, as it’s called, however....doesn’t have much to say on whether or not there are moral facts. Like above, there would be disagreement no matter the true nature of morality. If there weren’t facts, obviously.....but even if there were.
The one is explained by the other. Culture has a profound influence on moral agents.
(This actually cuts both ways. If there were no moral disagreement whatsoever, that wouldn’t rule out intersubjectivity any more than it does so in a given cultures broad agreement.)
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