Exactly .. Morality is a Philosophy that encourages and facilitates self-development of one's moral quotient and competence so that the individual will be spontaneously moral rather than being threatened by punishments from laws or religious command not to commit evil acts.Alexander_Reiswich wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 4:12 pmExactly -- it's a philosophy for self-improvement.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:50 am This is like developing a specific skill-set which must entail continual improvements of the neural correlates within the brain, mind and body via theories and practices.
In other words, FSK theory is only applicable when people are already willing to become better human beings and simply want to gain deeper insight into the evolutionary / physiological / neurological foundation of our moral intuitions and cultural best practices.
It is not a matter of waiting for people to be willing to become better.
Rather humanity must influence every or the majority humans to initiate their own moral development [moral skill set entailing the rewiring the relevant neural connections] naturally and voluntarily without force.
Given the current psychological state of the majority, this self-initiation is not likely to happen with the current or next few generations. This possibility of self-developing moral competence would be realizable after the next few generations in alignment with the current trend of the exponential and expansion of advance knowledge [neurosciences, genetics, genomics, molecular biology and the likes] and technology.
The ultimate vision of developing every individual's moral competence is to prevent disputes from arising in the first place, so there is no [minimal] disputes of resolve.But it can't be used to resolve disputes, to determine ethical standards and guidelines for organizations, industry and public institutions, to evaluate existing laws and derive new ones on the basis of "objective moral facts" and so on.
In setting up a credible moral FSK, one of the critical steps is to verify and justify objective moral facts empirically so that they can be used as standards to guide moral progress.
In the course of progress, these moral standards can be relied upon to resolve disputes if they arise. But the ultimate goal is to achieve a high self-regulated state such that there will no [or minimal] moral related disputes to attend to.
Not sure of your point?But talking of "objective moral facts" implies that all these things should be possible. As such, moral terminology seems inappropriate. But we can agree to disagree.
Yes, objective moral facts, e.g. the inherent 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' potential is possible and realizable.
Since it is an objective moral fact, it must be a moral terminology.
Actually [assuming you are a normal average person], the inherent 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' potential is existing as a fact [biological algorithm], real and active in your self.
This why you are not having the impulse to kill another human at this moment, thus you are a morally competent person in this sense re this particular moral fact.
In this case, your 'ought-ness-to-kill' is effectively suppressed and modulated by your 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' inhibitors.
I presume you are aware? you can be programmed to kill humans quite easily via specific brainwashing techniques where your inherent 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' inhibitors are weakened thus allowing your inherent 'ought-ness-to-kill' potential to be activated and directed to kill humans or specific humans.
In this case the inherent 'ought-ness-to-kill' and 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' are real to the extent they can be manipulated towards specific goals [output].
But those who do the brainwashing merely have intuitive knowledge of these things, so they cannot be justified as facts.
As I had defined, whatever is fact is conditioned upon a specific FSK.
Thus when the 'ought-not-ness-to-kill-humans' is verified and justified via the scientific FSK and then conditioned within the moral FSK, they are objective moral facts.
These objective moral facts are falsifiable in cases of brainwashing, psychopaths [murderers and serial killers], murder in rage of passion, and the likes.