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<blockquote data-quote="FrumiousBandersnatch" data-source="post: 75149831" data-attributes="member: 241055"><p>So how can one discover the objective moral truth?</p><p> </p><p>Each view is morally right to the individual that holds it (obviously). What they think of other's views is moot, though it seems reasonable that if you think your view is correct for someone else but they have a different view, you will tend to think their view is wrong.</p><p></p><p>The common usage is that morals differ between cultures and each culture's morals are correct for that culture. There is another approach, that of moral constructivism, where you construct your moral framework by reasoning from practical human experience (rather than theoretical reasoning, e.g. Kant). In this case you can acknowledge descriptive moral relativism, i.e. that other cultures have different moral frameworks, but still criticise them for not being correct (well-reasoned) - although there is the problem of how to establish that another culture's moral framework fails when you may not have practical experience of their situation from which to reason. </p><p></p><p>I suspect that most people are not moral subjectivists or relativists (in the sense above), or simply haven't formed an opinion on their moral stance. But suppose they all say that their moral code/values are <em>objectively</em> morally true? What difference would that make?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrumiousBandersnatch, post: 75149831, member: 241055"] So how can one discover the objective moral truth? Each view is morally right to the individual that holds it (obviously). What they think of other's views is moot, though it seems reasonable that if you think your view is correct for someone else but they have a different view, you will tend to think their view is wrong. The common usage is that morals differ between cultures and each culture's morals are correct for that culture. There is another approach, that of moral constructivism, where you construct your moral framework by reasoning from practical human experience (rather than theoretical reasoning, e.g. Kant). In this case you can acknowledge descriptive moral relativism, i.e. that other cultures have different moral frameworks, but still criticise them for not being correct (well-reasoned) - although there is the problem of how to establish that another culture's moral framework fails when you may not have practical experience of their situation from which to reason. I suspect that most people are not moral subjectivists or relativists (in the sense above), or simply haven't formed an opinion on their moral stance. But suppose they all say that their moral code/values are [I]objectively[/I] morally true? What difference would that make? [/QUOTE]
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