RE: Any Moral Relativists in the House?
May 25, 2021 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2021 at 3:25 pm by Angrboda.)
(May 25, 2021 at 3:02 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 25, 2021 at 11:29 am)brewer Wrote: Anybody else uncomfortable with the terms 'fact' and 'moral' being tied together?
Seems to me that all descriptive terms for moral philosophical positions fall under the term relative,.......... maybe excluding objective. They all fall somewhere of a moral sliding scale.
That's about as philosophical as I want to get.
You should be uncomfortable. Skepticism is warranted. Anyone who claims that there are (or may be) "moral facts" needs to explain themselves. And I'll tell you right now: no matter what their position is concerning moral facts, it will be unsatisfying in some way.
You know, it's not the nihilist who suffers anxiety so much as those around him who are trying to grapple with their incredulity and revulsion concerning his nihilism.