RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
October 4, 2021 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2021 at 11:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You indicated earlier that you felt logic and reason could account for slavery being an abominable practice. That suggests that there's something about slavery which is a bad making property regardless of whether or not a given subject apprehends it. That does seem to be the position that lincolns society was in at the time in question, highlighted, ofc, by dissenters like him. That's one way that an objective morality may be. Existent, demonstrable... and largely ignored.
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