The promise is what makes it a moral state of affairs.
— creativesoul
But that means that you have a rule that says "promises turn the act that is promised into a moral state of affairs". I think it's a sensible rule, I just don't understand your approach. — Echarmion
Hm maybe something's off with the subjective versus objective thing. — jorndoe
"...is good" is simple and unanalysable, according to Moore.
Consider a particular naturalist claim, such as that “x is good” is equivalent to “x is pleasure.” If this claim were true, Moore argued, the judgement “Pleasure is good” would be equivalent to “Pleasure is pleasure,” yet surely someone who asserts the former means to express more than that uninformative tautology. The same argument can be mounted against any other naturalist proposal: even if we have determined that something is what we desire to desire or is more evolved, the question whether it is good remains “open,” in the sense that it is not settled by the meaning of the word “good.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore-moral/
Moral judgements, like all judgements, are true, or they are false. This follows from their predicate-subject form.
Moral propositions imply an action. That is, one ought act in accord with true moral propositions. — Banno
Moral judgements, like all judgements, are true, or they are false. This follows from their predicate-subject form. — Banno
Is it possible to approve of something that's not good? Yes — Snakes Alive
Says who? — Snakes Alive
So what's the evidence that good is always good to some S? — Snakes Alive
If judgment that something is P is only found in an individual is not[/o] a reason for believing that something can be P only to some S, say in the case of whether it's raining, then it equally cannot be a reason for believing this in the case of goodness. — Snakes Alive
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