Moral Facts from the Inherent Moral Potential
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:58 am
Potentials such a potential energy are justifiable physical facts.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:52 pm The only ways morality has objectivity are as biological expressions made manifest.
The above is the path we should direct our attention to search for moral facts within the inherent moral potential represented by physical neural networks of neurons.In physics, a potential may refer to the scalar potential or to the vector potential. In either case, it is a field defined in space, from which many important physical properties may be derived.
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability.
The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate things that are in a state where they are able to change in ways ranging from the simple release of energy by objects to the realization of abilities in people.
The philosopher Aristotle incorporated this concept into his theory of potentiality and actuality,[1] a pair of closely connected principles which he used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima, which is about the human psyche.[2]
That which is potential can theoretically be made actual by taking the right action; for example, a boulder on the edge of a cliff has potential to fall that could be actualized by pushing it over the edge.
Several languages have a potential mood, a grammatical construction that indicates that something is potential. These include Finnish,[3] Japanese,[4] and Sanskrit.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential