RE: In Defense of a Non-Natural Moral Order
August 23, 2019 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2019 at 2:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC people think that their moral proclamations are “objectively true”, Acro. In the sense that you’re using the term the two words are redundant.
Thing is, that doesn’t get us anywhere as realists. Even if we uttered some moral proclamation that wasn’t true, our belief in its truth lead to its utterance or conception in the first place. If we could rustle up agreement we may still be dealing with an example of inter-subjectivity.
This is error theory. The idea that we’re trying to get things right™, and it may even be possible to get things tight™, but for whatever reason we got them wrong.
What we wonder, when we wonder about moral truth, is whether or not those things we all consider objectively true ( which aren’t always in agreement) are synthetic or analytic truths.
Properly stated, you might find that defending non natural realism is straightforward and uncomplicated. Even if it’s a little underwhelming for the recipient.
Thing is, that doesn’t get us anywhere as realists. Even if we uttered some moral proclamation that wasn’t true, our belief in its truth lead to its utterance or conception in the first place. If we could rustle up agreement we may still be dealing with an example of inter-subjectivity.
This is error theory. The idea that we’re trying to get things right™, and it may even be possible to get things tight™, but for whatever reason we got them wrong.
What we wonder, when we wonder about moral truth, is whether or not those things we all consider objectively true ( which aren’t always in agreement) are synthetic or analytic truths.
Properly stated, you might find that defending non natural realism is straightforward and uncomplicated. Even if it’s a little underwhelming for the recipient.
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