I’m interested in what you mean by reasonable definitions.
Also, you’ve basically said “Morality is objective” but with hedging, do you agree? Your position is reasonable and held by many.
I’m however separating what morality is, from what a particular moral system classifies as good or bad. Distinguishing the classifier from the output. I would say our statements are fundamentally incompatible rather than strictly opposite.
What I actually mean is something like the following: something is objective if its existence does not depend on its perception or representation by something(like a mind) other than itself. Maybe you could find a loophole in this definition to do with the definition of things like space, but I would then have to modify the definition; I’d have to think about it in more depth to give a definition I was confident reflected my internal sense of what the word means.
I would say morality is the area pertaining to the extent to which different things are good or bad, which I would themselves define in terms of pleasure and pain; I would then claim that pleasure and pain cannot easily be defined without reference to examples of them.
I’m interested in what you mean by reasonable definitions.
Also, you’ve basically said “Morality is objective” but with hedging, do you agree? Your position is reasonable and held by many.
I’m however separating what morality is, from what a particular moral system classifies as good or bad. Distinguishing the classifier from the output. I would say our statements are fundamentally incompatible rather than strictly opposite.
What I actually mean is something like the following: something is objective if its existence does not depend on its perception or representation by something(like a mind) other than itself. Maybe you could find a loophole in this definition to do with the definition of things like space, but I would then have to modify the definition; I’d have to think about it in more depth to give a definition I was confident reflected my internal sense of what the word means.
I would say morality is the area pertaining to the extent to which different things are good or bad, which I would themselves define in terms of pleasure and pain; I would then claim that pleasure and pain cannot easily be defined without reference to examples of them.