(August 22, 2019 at 12:44 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: To what extent are you comfortable blurring the lines of objectivity and subjectivity? I tend to view objectivity as an abstraction, deduced or assumed, from our subjective experience. We don't have direct access to it in the first place, because it is all filtered through our senses. In other words, we only have access to our direct conscious subjective experience.
I’m fine with this, as long as we’re not about to defend solipsism. It’s through our senses, perceptions that we deduce things out there, outside of our mind, and things which are in here, as a state of mind, our feelings, etc. Such as we can deduce that goodness of last nights dinner, is state of mind, the pleasant taste of it, and that moral goodness isn’t like this, but more like yellow, out there instead.
Quote:It's objective that people see the holocaust as immortal, and in that sense it is perhaps reducible to the natural biology of brains.
People don’t just see the holocaust as immoral, they also see the holocaust as objectively immoral, a matter of truth, rather than taste, opinions, or preference. It’s the difference between it being objectively true that I find my friends wife subjectively ugly, and believing she’s objectively ugly.
