I'm dusting off old skills... Horses for courses.Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:47 pmCareful Skepdick; you're in danger of learning something.
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- Tue May 07, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
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There's something in teeth. Need a floss?Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:41 pm
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Morality is useful for what we use it for, The same goes for objectivity. And it goes without saying that neither morality nor objectivity are useful for the things we don't use them for. Objective morality is a fiction All morality is fiction. Nothing precludes fiction from being objective. This i...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Which is precisely the fucking point...
There is no point of objectivity that is point-of-view independent.
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
As far as I am concerned, "objectively moral", is a contradiction in terms. Objectivity is the default position. Everything's objective. My desires. Your desires. The fact that your desires conflict with my desires. Objective facts everywhere. There's no contradiction until you make up th...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
'Subjective' and 'objective' can be useful words if people are in agreement on the meaning because then we can bypass spelling out every detail of what is being discussed. As it is, I have to ask exactly how subjective morality works, step by step, so that I can try to figure out what people are ac...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
As long as you know what 'objective' means, that's all that counts. It doesn't mean anything. It's an unnecessary word. Everything's objective by being exactly the way it is and no other way. It is by historical accident that things happened one way and not another way. It's a historical accident t...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Do you ever get tired of being this dumb?FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 12:48 pm The whole point of objectivity is not to be contingent on agreements.
The point of objectivity is entirely contingent upon people deciding what the point of objectivity is.
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
So how did you decide that abortion is a moral issue?
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: #NeverAnyElectionFraud
- Replies: 31
- Views: 376
Re: #NeverAnyElectionFraud
Communication is the (inadvertent and benign) manipulation of other minds.mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 10:44 pm Now you look as if you are avoiding communication, Pete.
You said you aren't into propaganda.
It's not possible to reconcile these two goals.
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: #NeverAnyElectionFraud
- Replies: 31
- Views: 376
Re: #NeverAnyElectionFraud
There's a difference?mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 12:17 pm Pete, we are talking at cross purposes; I’m a philosopher, and it seems you are primarily interested in rhetoric.
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
Well, since you mention the Bible, let's start with your feeling that the Bible is in some sense true; a feeling you clearly trust. No amount of textual analysis and exegesis can establish that objectively. How can you know you haven't gone "off course"? Can any amount of textual analysis...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
cooperation usually benefits everyone. If anyone stands to benefit less through cooperation than through robbing you then it's never true that cooperation benefits everyone. Robbery also involves the risk of retribution or retaliation. It's not free. The risk is priced into the assertion of "b...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
- Replies: 9982
- Views: 911715
Re: Is morality objective or subjective?
If anyone stands to benefit less through cooperation than through robbing you then it's never true that cooperation benefits everyone.
- Fri May 03, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
- Replies: 10
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Re: CH 3: a priori categories of moral understanding.
Another way to view this is to consider the very many ways in which philosophers have attempted to define the proper way to locate that which is morally desirable. There's usually a prima facie plausibility to the matter, and in general it is upon closer inspection that we find there is something i...