, a state is good when it engages our moral sensibilities s
Individually, or collectively?
We don’t encode locks, but we do encode morality.
Individually or collectively?
Namely, goodness of a state of affairs is something that I can assess myself from outside a simulation of that state. I don’t need to simulate anything else to see it
The goodness-to-you or the objective goodness?
if you are going say that morality “is” human value, you are faced with the fact that humans vary in their values..the fact that creates the suspicion of relativism.
This, I suppose, is why some people think that Eliezer’s metaethics is just warmed-over relativism, despite his protestations.
It’s not clearly relativism and it’s not clearly not-relativism. Those of us who are confused by it. are confused because we expect a metaethical theory to say something on the subject.
The opposite of Relative is Absolute or Objective. It isn’t Intrinsic. You seem to be talking about something orthogonal to the absolute-relative axis.
Individually, or collectively?
Individually or collectively?
The goodness-to-you or the objective goodness?
if you are going say that morality “is” human value, you are faced with the fact that humans vary in their values..the fact that creates the suspicion of relativism.
It’s not clearly relativism and it’s not clearly not-relativism. Those of us who are confused by it. are confused because we expect a metaethical theory to say something on the subject.
The opposite of Relative is Absolute or Objective. It isn’t Intrinsic. You seem to be talking about something orthogonal to the absolute-relative axis.