if your emotional responses are all that is required to justify your moral beliefs, why do you need to give reasons for them at all? — Janus
You believe it was true, but you could be mistaken. Obviously consensus can have no purchase in regard to some matters than can only be known to the individual. But again, this is a red herring in the context of discussing moral truth, and it is typical of you to introduce such weak analogies when you cannot come up with any cogent response. — Janus
You believe it was true, but you could be mistaken — Janus
All truths are only such insofar as they are based on inter-subjective agreement; and that goes for both scientific truths and moral truths. — Janus
In the thought experiment, I am white, and so is everyone else in my village. I've never even seen anyone of a different skin colour in person. My culture is very much racist. My parents are racist. But I am not. — S
Empirical truths are already extant in the world, merely being discovered, hence disseminated inward to the subjects, moral truths are extant in the subject, being determinations of will, and disseminated outward to like subjects. — Mww
disagreement with the latter is not necessarily irrational because this kind of truth merely represents an interest. — Mww
Therefore, a truth in itself has no need of inter-subjective agreement, whereas a truth as such, does.
I for one appreciate the inclusion of the qualifier “as such”, but you are aware of the catastrophic flaw in both our comments, right? — Mww
I don't understand what you're getting at here. I'd have thought a moral stance requires explanation (reasons) regardless of what they're based on.
Why would my moral stance on something not require explanation if it were based on an emotional response? — ChrisH
All world-views are adopted via language acquisition. — creativesoul
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