Right. Which is pretty much where we get to. Moral realists (or 'objectivists') have nothing more to support their claim than "it is not ruled out as ...
How can you reconcile both these statements? If the two Xs (that which moral systems aim at) are not the same, then it is de facto false that "all mor...
Hopefully this won't feel like too much of a breach of your request that I don't respond to any of your discussions, but I'm curious as to who these p...
Whether God is real or not has no bearing on my argument. Even if a moral system aimed at something which was not real, that still defeats your claim ...
Depends what you mean by 'truth'. A whole other argument. I think most people would (quite rightly) judge him 'ill', not 'wrong'. That's the point I w...
Yes, I understood that, I was wondering why you'd want to do that. We can already study human well-being and carry out any activities that such a stud...
Why would we need to link morality to human well-being in order to open up a field in which we can study it scientifically? Why don't we just study hu...
Your claim. 1. All moral systems aim to achieve X. 2. Science informs us about X. A necessary corollary of your claim, therefore is that science infor...
Then you should be able to substitute it for a synonymous sentence in all cases. So in all cases of moral systems what is a sentence we can use in pla...
I see what you mean. I wouldn't call that moral agreement because I'm seeing the justification to be the meat of any moral dilemma, not the need for i...
I see. I guess if people are just going to make stuff up off the top if their heads then they could just make up a thing which exists but doesn't have...
So if we take 'flourishing' to be a variable x (some thing), then your statement "all moral systems aim at human flourishing" becomes "all moral syste...
Right. As I said, special pleading. Why in earth would we start out believing the mind is something other than that which it is alley comprised of? Wh...
Because if it doesn't then your claim that "alk moral systems are about human flourishing" is flat out wrong. Some moral systems are clearly aimed at ...
I think it's common, but only with the caveat I introduced earlier (that we're talking about complex moral decisions, not whether to beat a child). Ye...
The common model. It seems to be a range of factors for different people. Some might want to be like him simply because others want to be like him, or...
Maybe, but I didn't say virtue ethics was the 'right' model, and I don't think @"Banno" did either. Not with 'right' being used in a normative sense. ...
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. I still think that duty has a place in morality, as does simple rule-following, social norms, empathy. .. I don't thi...
I don't see any widespread agreement on those matters. Torturing someone for no reason, is just definitional,what distinguishes actions (the things to...
Maybe. It depends his you want to define it. Take Aragorn for example (out of Lord of the Rings). He undoubtedly does some stuff which is 'moral'. I g...
Yes. To a great extent, that's it. The reason I mentioned the neuroscience is to fend off what seemed to me (I think perhaps incorrectly now) an attem...
Undoubtedly there are, several, but that doesn't mean that such methods would be applicable to all words. Maybe some words remain misunderstood by bot...
Doesn't it? If, by deleting all humans physically, you delete all minds, then without special pleading, that does, on the face of it, suggest very str...
And well you might, but your original claim was Divine command theory is a moral systems, so it must be included in your set {all moral systems}, thus...
It's not my supposition. Looking at the file from which I plucked that number, I have about 20 experiments, each involving say and average of three ex...
Really? If that's how you see it I'm not going to argue with you about it, but it seems odd to me. I can't think if a single moral fact that everyone ...
If you burned all the papers, deleted all the hard drives, and killed (or lobotomized) all the people with knowledge of the mortgage, how would there ...
Are you wondering how to use the word 'moral'? Edit - in case it's not clear. I'm asking because the difference seems obvious to me - the brain region...
Then whence the notion "It is not an impasse like you would expect if people's disagreements were just brute expressions."? It seems like an impasse, ...
Are you suggesting there's a way moral decision-making ought to be? Isn't the way moral decision-making ought to be itself a moral decision (afterall,...
Isn't it? You expect the dispute about abortion to be resolved any minute do you? What an endearing sense of optimism you have! Right. So your claim t...
You're confusing an instinctively moral desire with an instinctively moral outcome. We need laws and police because the behavioural result of any situ...
What about divine command theory? To express that in terms of human flourishing, then you'd have to include flourishing in the afterlife as part of 'f...
Not really. At least twelve different brain regions have been shown to be involved in moral decision making, some of which are to do with reward (happ...
Who's this 'we' and from where are you getting your assessment of usually? I certainly don't, and neither do any of my colleagues. We wouldn't get ver...
I think you might be replying to the wrong post, but either way If you consider including my name in the repeat of a post in which you insult me as a ...
So, on what basis are you judging 'best' here? What aspects does this explanation have which, say expressivism, doesn't have? Well then those are not ...
So, if what you determine counts as 'humanity' determines how you treat others, then how's this any different from relativism? Different people have d...
Maybe (although not in my experience), but you advanced this as evidence of us ascribing properties to objective entities (like slavery), so in the ca...
What evidence do you have for this? In the example of a tribe going to war with another to protect their resources (or capture more resources) what re...
As I raised with Pforrest earlier, this is simply not true so a s a basis for believing prima facie in moral truths it's sketchy at best. Currently, a...
I won't be able to get to this until tomorrow, but in advance of that, can you outline what kind of null hypothesis you'd have were you to test someth...
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