Like I said before, cultural relativism leads to anti-nationalism; but not all anti-nationalism is due to cultural relativism. I was noting cultural r...
This is a very interesting take, that I would like to explore more. I think you are right here: the firefighter’s duty would be to help put out fires ...
Cultural relativism is the view that objective goods are relative to social norms and values; and this line of thinking does usually cause anti-nation...
I see: you just have your own unique view of it...and there's nothing wrong with that (: How, then, under your view, are you determining moral integri...
Exactly. Aristotle doesn’t call this kind of cheating happiness happiness at all; because the only way one becomes truly fulfilled in life, with the h...
One may be bound, e.g., to save every person from burning buildings per se—as is the case for firefighters—but yet be incapable of saving everyone in ...
That is a better way to do it, but an invasion can work too and sometimes is necessary. You are forgetting that every major Western country was built ...
Ok, I am not following then (: I thought, by your example, worthiness of happiness referred to achieving true fulfillment by being worthy of it (hence...
No worries at all: I did the same thing to @"Mww" haha. I was assuming that if something is immoral than, ceteris paribus, one would think it should n...
:lol: You are confusing hedonic with eudaimonic happiness. It is important to remember that 'eudaimonia' does NOT accurately translate to any english ...
Red is a concept; redness is a property. Red is the concept, phenomenally, of that specific color which one has to see to intuit (what it is); and red...
This goes back to my point, which I think you may have misunderstood: the identity of a concept and its predication are two wholly separate things. To...
I am going to break it down explicitly clear for you, and if you cannot muster the strength to respond adequately then we are going to have to agree t...
I apologize Mww, I forgot to respond to this one. But that’s what ‘redness’ means: it’s the property of being red. Sure, a property is attributed to t...
You did: are you trying to troll me? That’s literally what I responded to, when you said: I am growing impatient with how lazy and ridiculous you are ...
So, under your view, it is good to do things that make you happy; but not good to be happy? My critique did not presuppose that there is an abstract o...
What murky points? It is, because the OP is asking where to begin in understanding what is good. It is putting the cart before the horse to begin with...
I am assuming you mean Mark Twain didn't study metaethics, normative ethics, nor applied ethics: in fact, I don't believe they existed as defined area...
No. Moore starts with an analysis of the concept of good: that was my point. You started with an analysis of what can be predicated to be good. That h...
CC: @"Mww", @"Corvus" I don't have a problem with the fact that you have your own ethical theory (in fact, I would be interested to hear about it), bu...
I wasn't: I was advocating that everyone is giving the OP an incorrect starting position, which was whatever the responder thought is chiefly good (or...
I was referring to the property of goodness, and not properties of goodness. It is one property, just like redness is the one property of ‘being red’....
I have maintained from the beginning of this discussion thread that I think Moore was right that good is an absolutely primitive and simple concept. E...
I already outlined in this post; and of which you didn’t respond at all. The euthyphro dilemma refers to whether or not God is determines what is good...
How do you know? You've never read it lmao. Nothing was corrected about what I said: I refer you back to my response. I have maintained the same posit...
:lol: :roll: I find it interesting that the person who has never read Moore, who doesn't see a need to, thinks they are understand Moore better than s...
Perhaps I misread, then: I thought you asked about what is good—no? Goodness is just the property of being good. I am just advocating that a person wh...
No, one would not think that AmadeusD; because for anyone who actually read my posts, I took a Moorean position on the nature of goodness which is not...
My understanding of the Principia Ethica, when I read it a while ago, was that his whole critique was, first and foremost, that ethics hitherto had no...
I don't disagree with that: I think we learn about all concepts through experience; but that doesn't mean that we can skip steps and put the horse bef...
That doesn't matter for my point I was making: I was pointing out that the OP is asking where to start, and surely they must start with the concept of...
The reason I am being so harsh with you, is because you obviously cherry-picked one sentence from my most recent post to someone else...... When I sai...
:chin: What meaningfully is there to talk about other than whether goodness is objective; whether judgments about what are good are cognitive and some...
Because the what goodness is is presupposed in what can be said to be good, so how can one accurately predicate goodness to something when they have n...
The problem I was raising is that the OP is asking: And your response to them was to suggest starting with analyzing happiness; when that is clearly n...
You just randomly misquoted me to try and pick a low hanging fruit (without reading anything I said). Either engage in what I am saying and give a use...
Nietzsche’s thoughts on morality are completely incompatible with Christianity. Moral anti-realism is incompatible with Jesus’ teachings. Beyond good ...
You misunderstand me: the concept of good refers to whatever 'good' means, not what or how one can predicate something to have it. Viz., the concept o...
No worries, and fair enough. You are right that the concept of ‘evil’ does arise out of religious ideologies, being closely connected to ‘sin’, but I ...
Then, you are not giving them a starting point for investigating ethics: you are giving them a Nietschien, moral anti-realist, position to explore. Su...
I was talking about the concept of good, and of which one must have an understanding of before they can accurately assess what can be predicated to ha...
How can one determine what is good without understanding what it would mean for something to be good in the first place? Isn't that putting the cart b...
Agreed. I was just noting that people find this very compelling, hence why (I would argue) most people find libertarianism appealing and are confused ...
That's just another way of saying there is no actual goodness and badness; because you defined it as whatever suits a person's own non-objective dispo...
Why would they do that? They need to first understanding what it means for something to be good, then explore what is good. You are having them skip v...
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