Isaac

No, it isn't. And yet I'm still waiting for any evidence at all to support your assertion that tribal cultures do not think the latter.

This is the bit I'm asking you for evidence for. That such rules are usually religious.

Well, any goal whatsoever. You've not provided a mechanism by which they would be restricted to social harmony. Nazi Germany. To get people to conform...

That's your extensive research? A book you bought that you can't even cite and a literary critic? ...yes, the main one being you've specified "in the ...

Right. So if most moral philosophers think that Euthyphro dispatches it (not that I agree at all with your assessment there), then it must be the case...

Evidence? Wayfarer wasn't talking about individualisation. He specifically said The very entitlement to humane treatment, he claimed started with Chri...

I wasn't saying that all things you feel like doing will be good for society. I'm saying that the things which will be good for society must be among ...

You said "Religious law was the first real check on arbitrary use of power" ie, before religious law there was arbitrary use of power, after it less ....

Oh, well I'm glad your racism is well researched, that makes all the difference. Cite me a collection of anthropologists stating that all non- or pre-...

... And there, slipped in among the reasonable sounding rhetoric lies the real nub of the matter. Those who engage in 'fallacies'. Shorthand for those...

I quoted the section... To make the 'moral development' argument is to implicitly condone the idea that those less 'well-developed' are less moral. Th...

Go on then. Let's hear your counter to any of the positions I've put forward in opposition to it. I've listed them in my post above for your convenien...

The racism comes from the creation of a 'club' based on a white-western model. Graciously 'allowing' other cultures into that club on the sole basis t...

Where do you people get this kind of bullshit from. Have you done any kind of historical or anthropological research at all before spewing this covert...

Your behaviour is far more interesting to me than your micky-mouse argument. I, along with about six other posters, have already addressed your argume...

I don't think this can be the case. Experiments like Milgram's and Zimbardo's are undoubtedly over simplifications, but that is necessary in any descr...

I sympathise with your objectives, but spam emailers are rarely sincere, blocked numbers are told they've been blocked, people who you've avoided at s...

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I think it still places too much emphasis on the individual (within the context of ethical naturalism). In et...

No. "everything is relative" is a theory borne out by the fact that nothing has yet been coherently demonstrated to be a universal.

Are you really that arrogant, or is it something you think people are impressed by?

You claiming that your premise is merely categorical (rather than realist) and your premise actually being categorical (rather than realist) are not t...

Yes Yes Yes What has any of that got to do with my assertion that your premise is moral realism? How do you know this? I've asked you several times no...

Firstly, I've asked you twice now for some empirical evidence to support this claim and you've provided none. Secondly, I've already explained that ca...

You're not missing anything. The argument just conflates whole sets with members of a set, thereby appearing to show a contradiction. I've corrected i...

Truth as correspondence with reality has its problems though, which pragmatism tries to solve. We don't have direct access to reality and the physical...

I'm presuming in this that you're arguing the "truth-maker" here is correspondence with reality? That's fine when the subject matter is empirical, as ...

I've bolded the relevant part, for me. By what measure could you possibly know you are wrong about a metaphysical position such as to be self-correcti...

The very matter which took me from social psychology to philosophy was the way metaphysical assumptions affected mental health. Way off topic here, bu...

Your claim includes the statement that some immoral act is immoral regardless of our personal opinion on the matter. That is a position of moral reali...

It's not about how useful the resultant fact would be if it corresponded with reality. It's about how useful the theory about reality actually is. The...

Yes. Do you have a better dataset to support your assertion?

If that's based on critical thinking, then what is it critical of.... What is the alternative metaphysical assumption that you have used your critical...

Yes, I totally agree. A lot of my philosophy derives from the British Pragmatists, so I'd go even further perhaps to say that truth itself is only a m...

Absolutely. But that fact in itself does not mean we can meaningfully "analyse" those implicit metaphysical assumptions. We can point out their presen...

So what would you say the difference was between "gut feeling and faith" and the subject matter of what you're calling "serious" analysis? If we're no...

I agree. It may well be the case that what we call our sense of morality is the result of evolved mechanisms (I, for one, think it probably is), but i...

Your previous ones were written sober??

Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Accept or lean toward: moral realism 525 / 931 (56.4%) - Phil Papers Survey. ...hardly an overwhelmi...

Fair enough. As I said, my knowledge of modern history is not that exhaustive. I accept what you say about the 'state religion' of Stalinist Russia, b...

I'm no historian, but with what little knowledge I have, the only serious oppression I can think of perpetrated by atheists on the religious is Nazi G...

Yes, I too had somewhat mixed my messages and was referring here to society in general (as with religious tolerance) not philosophy forums, where both...

This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I see where you're going with it. You seem to be arguing (correct me if I'm wrong) that there is some un...

So you're probably right about this not being the place to re-hash the moral relativism argument, but the above is the interesting part with regard to...

Though less forthcoming with terminology, you might then, prefer to look at the work of someone like Amishi Jha whose approach from neuroscience is su...

So by what measure are they correct then, if not democratic agreement? I'm not seeing the difference at all. If we were to agree on the relative value...

Oddly, I'd say the exact opposite, so I'd be interested in your reasoning. I don't think it's possible derive principles "correctly" as I can't think ...

John Bargh coined the (rather boring) term 'automaticity' to cover behaviours devoid of either awareness, intentionality, controllability or high cogn...

I'm not sure what an assertion of pejorative means, but if it means that the term used in the assertion is a pejorative one, then yes, The sentence is...

I'm not assuming you haven't read anything. My entire argument is about disagreement among epistemological peers and the consequences of that for the ...

But there is not, as I see it, an issue of category types being conflated. Continental philosophy (insofar as that term means anything at all, which i...