RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
November 5, 2021 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2021 at 11:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Continuing...if those are the requirements of good as you see good, by intuition or by fact...a...you still "see good", which is to say you still have moral intuitions...and b, you've made good impossible... not ambiguous... as it entails that people are completely competent, can predict the future, and that none of our good™ works can be undone. That's simply not true of people or of future circumstance, and we certainly understand that to be the case in reality. Therefore..even though you "see good" as either intuition or fact, good is practically unattainable. Leading to a question...not of good, but of why bother to be good.
Does any of this help with regards to the question of moral intuitions trustworthiness?
The answer to that question, of why to be, from natural or non natural realism, is...no reason if you can't think of one. If you can't think of a reason to be good or do good, in light of all of that, it really doesn't even matter whether or not there is good. As even if there were, there would be no reason (or compelling reasons not to) do it. However, the question of whether or not we can trust our moral intutitions is not interchangeable with the question of whether or not we would be practically compelled or even empowered by their conclusions. Our moral intutitions may be trustworthy, and yet our moral field is nothing but shit. This is so much the kind of thing we call a fact that it can be predictably mapped (and make predictions of the mapping subject) on a simple two axis graph....and still..as you correctly notice, the world is what it is.
Does any of this help with regards to the question of moral intuitions trustworthiness?
The answer to that question, of why to be, from natural or non natural realism, is...no reason if you can't think of one. If you can't think of a reason to be good or do good, in light of all of that, it really doesn't even matter whether or not there is good. As even if there were, there would be no reason (or compelling reasons not to) do it. However, the question of whether or not we can trust our moral intutitions is not interchangeable with the question of whether or not we would be practically compelled or even empowered by their conclusions. Our moral intutitions may be trustworthy, and yet our moral field is nothing but shit. This is so much the kind of thing we call a fact that it can be predictably mapped (and make predictions of the mapping subject) on a simple two axis graph....and still..as you correctly notice, the world is what it is.
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