Answering Moral Skepticism Kagan Shelly
Answering Moral Skepticism Kagan Shelly Most thoughtful people worry at one time or another about whether there can actually be such a thing as objective moral truth. Or they might be bothered by…
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Answering Moral Skepticism Kagan Shelly
Most thoughtful people worry at one time or another about whether there can actually be such a thing as objective moral truth. Or they might be bothered by questions like these: What could objective moral facts possibly be like? They might wonder, for example, whether the prevalence of moral disagreement makes it reasonable to conclude that there aren't really any moral facts at all.
If there were moral facts, how could we ever come to know anything about them? Isn't it obvious that morality is simply relative to particular societies and particular times? Can morality really have the motivating and rational force we normally take it to have?
How can one possibly find a place for objective moral values in a scientific worldview?Some people are driven by questions like these to the conclusion that we should embrace skepticism about morality, denying the very existence of anything