RE: Any Moral Relativists in the House?
June 14, 2021 at 11:49 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2021 at 12:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, no to one. Absolute moral facts are a contention that stands alone. There could be gods, and absolute moral facts..or no gods...and still absolute moral facts. I don't think that there are any, but finding or not finding a god would have no effect on finding or not finding such facts. If we found no gods, we could not rationally conclude, on that basis, that there were no or could be no moral absolutes.
It's unclear, btw, how god morals could amount to absolute morals. They're pretty much the opposite thing. Contingent vs non contingent facts.
I think that a more promising question or comment is not whether shared opinions amount to an objective morality, but whether or not were capable..and if, in that event, some portion, however small..of our shared moralizing..is an objective apprehension. Not absolute, perhaps, but objective.
It's unclear, btw, how god morals could amount to absolute morals. They're pretty much the opposite thing. Contingent vs non contingent facts.
I think that a more promising question or comment is not whether shared opinions amount to an objective morality, but whether or not were capable..and if, in that event, some portion, however small..of our shared moralizing..is an objective apprehension. Not absolute, perhaps, but objective.
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