Fides Quaerens Intellectum

So would a person without empathy and different values be perfectly justified in committing genocide? The proposed answers are not relative they are e...

Ok it seems as though we have almost the exact same view. My argument would just be that while the physical landscape changes, the physical makeup of ...

You are correct but unless oppression is morally wrong, why does this matter? Do you believe that your moral views and the views of the fascist to hav...

I imagine then that the opposite of this is true: If you do like chocolate ice cream, then eating it may cause you pleasure, so eat it. Would you hone...

This is exactly my view. Do you disagree with this premise? Again if no one on Earth ever condemned genocide would it be the right thing to do? Why wo...

Just because we don't know the answer to is abortion wrong does not mean there is no answer. Can you apodictically prove that evolution is true? or pl...

You make a good point but if Mussolini did not violate a moral absolute then your anger at his actions is equally morally valuable to his anger that h...

You are right. I misunderstood I will try to answer your actual argument. You are arguing that we have no reason to believe that morality exists separ...

My point with this argument was to show that just because there were moral disagreements throughout time and cultures that did not signify moral relat...

Can you please respond to the part about appealing tot the absolute of the value of human life?

Your quote was next to the Mussolini quote because the Mussolini quote ended my first point, (that moral absolutism is not the only cause of oppressio...

But the absolute of the value of human life is not flexible. I am arguing for lack of a better term, flexible killing. Kant believes killing is always...

Perhaps I should use the word reason then. I'll admit I'm not that familiar with proper philosophy. Correct but both Kant and I would be arguing what ...

You all seem to be arguing the same point. Ironically I am in agreement with you guys on every point except the source of morality. Since your replies...

No one believes this, that I know of. My point is that the horrific beliefs that I described are the end result of moral relativism. I have never met ...

You seem to be equating moral absolutism with moral inflexibility. Moral absolutism does not make the claim that our current understanding of morality...

which lecture? My name comes from Anselm of Canterbury, it was his motto. It means if you didn't already know, "faith seeking understanding". It fully...

That is my belief. same here.

Actually after I looked closer it seems you have almost the opposite belief as him. He believes that we cannot affect the future yet we still have mor...

could our environment have determined that we have free will? Or could it be built into our initial character?

@"ToothyMaw" also have you read John Calvin. Much of what you are saying sounds like his philosophy.

If agency still exists then how are we not morally responsible?

Yes but that is a different philosophy to determinism. Which is what ToothyMaw is arguing. The determinist would just say that Karmic religions are wr...

I may be mistaken but I don't believe that human sacrifices were ever done because they thought that human sacrifice in and of itself was a good thing...

Could you present to me a sophisticated argument for moral relativism. I read several defenses of moral relativism but hey all appealed to some transc...

Sorry I'm new to forums How does one reduce suffering in a world that is predetermined. Wouldn't the amount of suffering on earth merely be the amount...

I suppose my argument could be stated as: 1. Moral relativism claims that there is no independent moral standard. 2. Judgements of value cannot be mad...

I originally wrote this for a Christian theology/philosophy group I host. There were originally a few paragraphs preceding this that I directed at the...

I think we are actually in agreement on this whole issue. I think you are right in how we should discuss moral issues except when you say that this in...

if you are interested here is a link to a recitation of Lewis' wirting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgcd6jvsCFs&t=13s

I fully agree with you. The fact that moral relativism is so appealing is likely due to the abuse of moral "authority" by governments or the Church an...

My question for Nietzsche would be: Why should we embrace his view? If moral judgments are mere imaginings then by what criteria does he judge that we...

It reminds me of what CS Lewis said in his "Poison of Subjectivism" -

I like that. Thanks for posting. I'll have to check him out.

I have a few questions which you may have already answered but I missed them if you have. 1. Do you believe that moral responsibility exists? If so wh...