According to M.E. Fox and A.C.F.A. d’Avalos, logic dictates that at least some moral propositions must be true.
http://philosophynow.org/issues/6/The_N ... al_Realism
The Necessity of Moral Realism
Re: The Necessity of Moral Realism
The article is pure nonsense, written by 2 half wits without an ounch of rationallity or any significantly historical insights nor how laws are lived out in real life.
To divide morals into true or false is the same mistake the egg heads tryed back in the days, to condense life into algorithms, thus creating the print card moronism, there are too many abstract variables to condense into binary systems, and by the motto computers doesn't lie! ..but that's not the point, computers can only calculate what programmers has taught it to do, not only are there bugs and glitches in programming, but the nature of programmers is that they often are a bunch of "Rain Men" with little rationallity, thus not comprehending everyday things.
One has to forsee the full consequenses of a moral rule, the founding fathers of USA couldn't forsee the consequences of the weapon law, now there's school massacars on a regular basis, because of that.
In Denmark the "equallity" was raped when many school teachers would take it litteraly and refuse to send gifted kids to schools for the gifted, because that would break the equallity. Then it was reasoned that these kids could get smarter and earn more money for the common good of the wealfare state, but no the teachers insisted on the euqallity principle!
Please black list these writers, it's completely disgraceful to philosophy!
To divide morals into true or false is the same mistake the egg heads tryed back in the days, to condense life into algorithms, thus creating the print card moronism, there are too many abstract variables to condense into binary systems, and by the motto computers doesn't lie! ..but that's not the point, computers can only calculate what programmers has taught it to do, not only are there bugs and glitches in programming, but the nature of programmers is that they often are a bunch of "Rain Men" with little rationallity, thus not comprehending everyday things.
One has to forsee the full consequenses of a moral rule, the founding fathers of USA couldn't forsee the consequences of the weapon law, now there's school massacars on a regular basis, because of that.
In Denmark the "equallity" was raped when many school teachers would take it litteraly and refuse to send gifted kids to schools for the gifted, because that would break the equallity. Then it was reasoned that these kids could get smarter and earn more money for the common good of the wealfare state, but no the teachers insisted on the euqallity principle!
Please black list these writers, it's completely disgraceful to philosophy!
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Re: The Necessity of Moral Realism
HexHammer. The insults and banter is really unnecessary I think these two individuals did a great and wonderful job despite any difference in worldviews. And within the realm of meta-ethics we’re trying to figure out the nature of morality. So it’s perfectly fine to try and determine whether moral sentences and claims have truth value (thereby logically extending this means that the nature of morality is objective). The computer analogy is fine but it’s over exaggerated it makes it seem like this article is more constrained than what it is. Really they are using propositional logic to justify moral objectivity with tautologies, syllogisms, and contingent sentences. And Moral realism typically states that moral facts are facts by the accuracy they report reality. This article is providing us with the facts that objective rules must exist at the least. I’m not sure how many examples correlate but we shouldn’t diminish these two for their good work.