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>There's no objective morality and no objective politics. Really? The majority of academic philosophers disagree with you, and they have very good arguments fo
by KaliYugaz 10y ago
>There's no objective morality and no objective politics.
Really? The majority of academic philosophers disagree with you, and they have very good arguments for moral realism.
One thing to think about: it's not possible to affirm objective standards of rationality and deny objective standards of morality at the same time without being inconsistent, since both epistemology and ethics deal with normative statements (what one ought to do), not fact statements.
- pjc50 10y agoReally? I wasn't aware that morality was a solved problem! Now that we have the one true moral code, why aren't copies being distributed everywhere?
- KaliYugaz 10y agoThe truth of moral realism is a meta-ethical fact that doesn't preclude debate and experimentation regarding what the Good actually is. Just like how the existence of an objective material reality is a fact assumed by science without precluding scientific debate and experimentation regarding the nature of that reality.
- aidenn0 10y agoAsserting the existence of moral realism without proving a specific moral reality is acceptable. The closest thing I can think of in computing theory would be that the statement "A perfect player playing Go will never lose when going first" is obviously accepted as true, despite the fact that creating a perfect Go player is an open problem.