I am referring to moral ought claims, which it is not apparently clear that your example is expressing without additional context. Nonetheless, whethe...
So your basically a platonist when it comes values and morals? I get lost when you say that values exist and are objective. I can agree with you that ...
I view ought claims, in ethics, as statements that prescribe (or proscribe for oughtn't claims) a given action; that it should be done. An ought claim...
The contradiction would form when the principles with which we construct a framework for our moral system contains both of the following propositions....
Your argument is something like this? P1. You should rape if, and only if, you both derive pleasure from it and think you can get away with it P2. Mos...
This sounds like Hedonistic Utilitarianism, which assumes an act is moral based entirely on a net gain of positive utility (pleasure it produces) or o...
I think I may agree with you. A prudential value is a kind of value which is always relative to someone or something. I do think that moral statements...
I agree with you that we publicly express value claims and, what is more, I would even grant the notion that there are evaluative components entangled...
I think this may be where our differences lie. The distinction that I draw between facts and values is much more current and ubiquitous than a few 20t...
Just to be clear, you are quoting my response to a question asking who the authority is when it comes to defining what a descriptive statement is. It ...
The difference between the fact/value distinction and the is-ought divide is that the former also encompasses aesthetics. It doesn't necessarily provi...
This is, of course, trivially true and tangential to any point that I have made. The is—ought divide expresses skepticism that an inference can be mad...
The is/ought divide threatens the central thesis that Moral Realism attempts to put forward and defend. Moral Realism takes the view that moral values...
I am not saying that weather itself is subjective. Im saying that we can talk about weather in an objective way - as some fact of the world - and that...
@"Bartricks" No, your approach is all wrong here. If I believe it's raining and you believe it's sunny, it is, therefore, true that you hold a belief ...
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