(2019-01-10, 03:11 PM)Mediochre Wrote: Well yeah, that's the point. That's why it can't be objective.
That you make for morality maybe. I do my best to understand my own reasoning for things. Right down to understanding that my reason for wanting anything at all is based on the circular logic of "good feelings feel good". Anyone can claim that they just "know" something is true deep down. But it means nothing.
Are you saying you don't think logic is objective? That would also make mathematics lack objectivity, since the proofs come from logic.
As for your second paragraph, our reasoning of our actions wouldn't preclude moral instinct. After all once can ask why some good feelings feel good and not others?
This isn't to say that one can find commandments for every situation written into the fabric of reality. But I'm not sure morality needs to have a perfect ordering of actions with Good Place type point totals to be considered objective in at least some sense.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell