RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
November 5, 2021 at 8:12 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2021 at 8:13 am by Alan V.)
(November 5, 2021 at 7:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: So, to really needle in on that, I get that your intellectual position is one of ambiguity. Is that how you experience moral content, though? The question of whether or not we can trust our moral intuitions presumes that we have them. Do you have moral intuitions, have you found them to be trustworthy?
I see many situations in moral terms. I have some notion of ideal situations, however unrealistic they might be.
What I don't see is how to intervene in such a way as to improve on them. I either don't have enough information, don't trust my own assessments, don't care enough about other people, or don't see how to separate the good from the bad in any given situation. That is what remains ambiguous.
So my idealism based on my cultural conditioning is mitigated by my realism.
Do you see some way out of the ambiguities of naturalism?