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Notes and Thoughts on Parfit and Moral Disagreement (Ch. 34)IntroductionBefore getting into the philosophy, for those of you who aren’t familiar with the trolley thought experiments, answer these questions before proceeding:Trolly Q1: You are driver of a runaway tram which you can only steer from one narrow track on to another; five men are working […]
Read More Moral Disagreement Part 1: ParfitOther Mackie ArticlesMackie on Subjectivity vs ObjectivityMackie Intro and Second vs First Order Ethics OverviewDo objective moral values or principles exist? Or are we dancer? When someone says, “it’s wrong to do x” or “you ought not to do x” it seems as though they are referring to something objective about or in the act. That is, we […]
Read More The Arguments from Queerness and Relativity (Mackie Part 2)Holy Crap! It’s 4:10am and I’m going to start this now? Am I insane? Yup. Actually, I have to do a presentation on this articles in 2 days so I’m forcing myself to get through the entire article tonight so tomorrow I can pick and choose the parts I’ll use for my presentation. I should […]
Read More Want to Discover Moral Truth? Part 3 How to Be a Moral Realist by Richard BoydOverviewIn part 1 we looked at how Boyd draws an analogy between scientific realism and moral realism. The first parallel is that there is a progressively recursive relationship between theory and experience. The second is that there is a progressively recursive relationship between theory and method. Check out part 1 if you’d like further elaboration…I’ve […]
Read More Want to Discover Moral Truth? Part 2 "How to Be a Moral Realist" by R. BoydBefore I start I want to give a shout out to fauxphilnews.wordpress.com a blog which I fancy is one of the cleverest blogs I’ve seen in a while. For those of you who didn’t see (or click on) the link I posted on my fb page, I highly recommend you check it out. Oh, I should […]
Read More Want to Discover Moral Truth? Part 1 "How to Be a Moral Realist" by R. Boyd
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