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foundations of morality

duckrabbit19 April 06, 2021 at 22:47 2475 views 8 comments
I travel with diverse company. Moral relativists, deontologists, utilitarians, nihilists, religionists, existentialists, etc etc. Moral realism seems to be a proper understanding of how one should approach ethical issues. What do you think? On what might one base their ethics and morality?

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javi2541997 April 07, 2021 at 04:24 #519679
Reply to duckrabbit19

I would say judicial positivism.
[i]"You call one of them, I presume, a virtue and the other a vice?" "Of course." "Justice the virtue and injustice the vice?"

Plato, The Republic, 348c, Plato V, Republic I, Books I-V, translated by Paul Shorey, Loeb Classical Library[/i]

I guess you could like check out this table of Freisan school about moralism and ethics (Key Distinctions for Value Theories.)



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Zophie April 07, 2021 at 15:26 #519811
For whom in what time and which place?
praxis April 07, 2021 at 18:05 #519855
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duckrabbit19 April 08, 2021 at 00:18 #519995
Reply to Zophie As I address the readers of the post: the who would be you, the when would be now, and the place would be wherever you happen to be.
duckrabbit19 April 08, 2021 at 00:32 #520000
Reply to javi2541997 This is interesting. I have not read much legal philosophy, so I admit a great deal of ignorance on this topic. A quick reference to my library and the Stanford encyclopedia leads me to some confusion. To borrow some language from classical philosophy, it appears that legal positivism refers more to conventional law; my curiosity was more in regard to natural law. So, I'm curious if you see a connection between the two, and, if so, what is the bridge?
Zophie April 08, 2021 at 00:37 #520001
What makes me so important that I should preside over other people's moral judgements?
Tom Storm April 08, 2021 at 01:13 #520011
Reply to duckrabbit19 Are you asking the question how do we (best) justify morality?
javi2541997 April 08, 2021 at 04:15 #520054
Quoting duckrabbit19
So, I'm curious if you see a connection between the two, and, if so, what is the bridge?


There is a connection but just in behaviour. We are agree here that natural law comes first and then positive law. Nevertheless, they are connected because of structuralism. Thus, necessarily all the aspects in human nature needs to be performed in the system with a development.
Natural law is there and supposedly always been but we, citizens, transformed it to conventional law just to secure the application.