All truths are only such insofar as they are based on inter-subjective agreement; and that goes for both scientific truths and moral truths. So, the u...
If you are the kind of moral relativist who claims that moral truths are relative only to individuals' preferences, then you are not "fine with inter-...
Yes, the ham-fisted invocation of objectivity, understood as opposed to subjectivity, in the arguments of the moral relativists is a category error. M...
Makes no sense to me, so what about it? And I'm saying that any measurement is bias-free or it is not an accurate measurement. When I am building, my ...
Thanks for your condescension, but I know what "ostensibly" means, and I don't believe science even ostensibly "presumes an external objective univers...
No I'm saying there is nothing intrinsically neurotic about being concerned with looking a certain way; or to put it another way concern with looking ...
Maybe it is neurotic to be (overly, at least) concerned with how you look, but there is nothing intrinsically neurotic about pursuing self-mastery or ...
"Are bodybuilders poor neurotic men?" Are there no women into bodybuilding? :joke: Seriously, though, if you want to get into strength-training, as op...
I think your claim that science "presumes an external objective universe of noumena" is questionable. Science concerns itself with phenomena, not with...
As the great sage (or was he merely a smartarse?) Ashleigh Brilliant once said " My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anyt...
Why should the acknowledgement of absolute nothing (more aptly no-thing) entail "subjectivism/relativism/nihilism"? Naturalism is not merely a 'method...
Oh, it's "fine" is it, really? This is a prime example of how you twist what is said to suit your purposes. As I have already explained many times, I ...
Good faith means that when you point out inconsistencies or inadequacies in the other's position they provide a cogent argument to show that it is not...
If you murder someone because that action is the lesser of two evils how is that relevant to the point that an act is moral if its intent is to do the...
I haven't accused you of distortion and sophistry...yet...I had thought you are one of the more reasonable respondents in this thread. Although the wa...
It's normative because its the feeling or the kind of feeling that allows people to live together more or less harmoniously. I've said all I'm going t...
Torturing an innocent child could never bring about a harmonious society, so I cannot see that such a far out thought experiment has any bearing on wh...
Morality isn't anything other than what's it's good for. You seem to be confusing yourself by looking for a substantive nature of morality, instead of...
But if your morality were based only on your personal preferences, and you were satisfied with that then nothing anyone raises could be a problem for ...
This is nonsense, since ethics is essentially a normative discipline, and so-called meta-ethics is nothing if it not a part of that. Don't be relying ...
No, the reality is that people don't see themselves as isolated subjects preferring moral positions like they might prefer different foods. People don...
You obviously care enough to argue with others about it. I agree that moral feelings are the foundation of moral stances; or at least that feelings ar...
This is a bit of sophistry. It is obvious even to the casual reader that the point @"Isaac" was making was that the sentence "We are under attack" is ...
No, it's all just talk about ethics, which is part of the domain of ethics; there is no coherent separation. In any case it doesn't matter what you ca...
You can make judgements, but your judgements can carry no normative weight at all, and hence they are merely arbitrary, just as the judgements of all ...
Whether it poses any problem for moral relativists doesn't matter to me, it's irrelavnat to what I am arguing. Their criterion for a particular moral ...
There is no meta-ethics; there is only ethics. Ethics talking about itself is part of ethics, just as philosophy talking about itself is part of philo...
I think that if a disinterested person observed a whole bunch of moral relativists expressing their different moral opinions and arguments, she would ...
This wrong for two reasons. Firstly there is no reason why moral relativism cannot be considered dispassionately, from outside it and 'apart from" ind...
Really? And on what basis would the disinterested observer "observe" (don't you mean 'judge'?) that "there is a right and wrong in a relative sense" o...
Wrong again (you're not doing too well today!); what I said has nothing to do with consequentialism which is about the specific effects of moral actio...
Not at all; it says that the essence of moral relativism as Terrapin frames it (and I'm not saying that is the only possible framing) is that all mora...
Science tells us that the Universe existed long before the advent of humans. Of course that judgement is made by humans. But the truth as to whether o...
If we want to rule out the possibility that there is someone who has no moral preferences we do. In any case you didn't address this: Your second sent...
I would agree with that. In a sense all macro-objects are "observers", and when they interact with other macro-objects this counts as an "observation"...
I can't see how that question is relevant to the question I asked. You claim that nothing existed prior to the advent of observers. Animals are observ...
Out of what...8 billion? In any case moral relativism (at least int the way you frame it) carried to its logical conclusion means that no moral stance...
It's not just sheep and goats or chimps and pigs doin' it: http://www.macroevolution.net/sheep-pig-hybrids.html Maybe it was an inter-species gene-sha...
But they don't arise form the same source; just as all examples of thinking don't. Plato is not the same source as Aristotle, and Parmenides is not th...
All philosophies are examples of thinking, just as all physical activities are examples of acting. From that it doesn't follow that all thinking and a...
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