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Sextus Posted 21 years ago
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Morality: an area, a view of the world...?
I'm constrasting "morality" with something else, and I don't know how to call them. I mean, I don't know what common name I should give to both morality and the other term of the constrast. Hope this will become clear by looking at the examples below:
1) "This kind of ethical skepticism does not call into question all beliefs, but arises from a constrat between morality and some other system of beliefs about the world that cannot be undermined by skepticism".
Also, should I say "set of beliefs" instead of "system of beliefs"?
2) "Smith's view is, then, that ethical skepticism is local because it is based upon a contrast between morality and some other conception of the world which describes it in itself".
3) "The view that Bett rejects is the one which asserts that skepticism about morality rests on the adoption of a non-skeptical attitude towards some other way of looking at the world, and not necessarily towards science."
4) "From the fact that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about every other area, Bett invadly infers that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about any other area. That is to say, to deny the objectivity of morality, it is not necessary to have confidence in the objectivity of sciences and common sense and any other way of looking at the world; but it does not follow from this that, to deny the objectivity of morality, one need not be certain about the objectivity of at least some other way of looking at the world."
I add two more doubts which do not belong to the previous set of examples:
5) "The Pyrrhonist does not rule out the possibility of ever finding an assertion or set of assertions that could meet the Dogmatists' conditions for justified beliefs".
6) "He is as agnostic in the other fields as he is in ethics".
I just wanna know if these two last sentences sound ok.
Thank you in advance,
Sextus.
1) "This kind of ethical skepticism does not call into question all beliefs, but arises from a constrat between morality and some other system of beliefs about the world that cannot be undermined by skepticism".
Also, should I say "set of beliefs" instead of "system of beliefs"?
2) "Smith's view is, then, that ethical skepticism is local because it is based upon a contrast between morality and some other conception of the world which describes it in itself".
3) "The view that Bett rejects is the one which asserts that skepticism about morality rests on the adoption of a non-skeptical attitude towards some other way of looking at the world, and not necessarily towards science."
4) "From the fact that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about every other area, Bett invadly infers that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about any other area. That is to say, to deny the objectivity of morality, it is not necessary to have confidence in the objectivity of sciences and common sense and any other way of looking at the world; but it does not follow from this that, to deny the objectivity of morality, one need not be certain about the objectivity of at least some other way of looking at the world."
I add two more doubts which do not belong to the previous set of examples:
5) "The Pyrrhonist does not rule out the possibility of ever finding an assertion or set of assertions that could meet the Dogmatists' conditions for justified beliefs".
6) "He is as agnostic in the other fields as he is in ethics".
I just wanna know if these two last sentences sound ok.
Thank you in advance,
Sextus.
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Hi, Your choices basically seem OK to me. Any argument about them really starts to become a philosophical discussion, which is what you want anyway. Would you want to try contrasting morality to a system of ethics?
- Hi, Your choices basically seem OK to me.
- Any argument about them really starts to become a philosophical discussion, which is what you want anyway.
- Would you want to try contrasting morality to a system of ethics?
- 5) "The Pyrrhonist does not rule out the possibility of ever finding an assertion or set of assertions that could meet the Dogmatists' conditions for justified beliefs".
- OK 6) "He is as agnostic in the other fields as he is in ethics".
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Hi,
Your choices basically seem OK to me. Any argument about them really starts to become a philosophical discussion, which is what you want anyway.
Would you want to try contrasting morality to a system of ethics?
5) "The Pyrrhonist does not rule out the possibility of ever finding an assertion or set of assertions that could meet the Dogmatists'
Your choices basically seem OK to me. Any argument about them really starts to become a philosophical discussion, which is what you want anyway.
Would you want to try contrasting morality to a system of ethics?
5) "The Pyrrhonist does not rule out the possibility of ever finding an assertion or set of assertions that could meet the Dogmatists'
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I'm contrasting morality with science (natural and social), common sense, etc.
Regarding 6), I could probably say "He is agnostic about all beliefs, and not only about ethical ones". Or something like that. What do you think?
What about the following example
"In ethics, as in all other areas, he finds conflicts between..."?
Cheers,
Sextus
Regarding 6), I could probably say "He is agnostic about all beliefs, and not only about ethical ones". Or something like that. What do you think?
What about the following example
"In ethics, as in all other areas, he finds conflicts between..."?
Cheers,
Sextus
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1) "This kind of ethical skepticism does not call into question all beliefs, but arises from a constrat between morality and some other system of beliefs about the world that cannot be undermined by skepticism".
Also, should I say "set of beliefs" instead of "system of beliefs"?
I wonder whether "morality" is a precise enough term here. If we're contr
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2) "Smith's view is, then, that ethical skepticism is local because it is based upon a contrast between morality and some other conception of the world which describes it in itself".Just to clarify: does "it" here refer back to "world"?
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I'm wondering now whether we can say "objectivity of morality". It might imply "the objectivity of the moral view of the world"; whereas I think you mean "the objective existence of morality".
Maybe:
4) "From the fact that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about every other area, Bett invalidly infers that, to be skeptical about
Maybe:
4) "From the fact that, to be skeptical about morality, one need not be non-skeptical about every other area, Bett invalidly infers that, to be skeptical about
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In #5, I'm not sure about "conditions for justified beliefs". What would it mean, in context?
In #6, is it possible to specify what the fields are?
MrP
In #6, is it possible to specify what the fields are?
MrP
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MrPedanticIn #5, I'm not sure about "conditions for justified beliefs". What would it mean, in context?Regarding 5), this is the context:
In #6, is it possible to specify what the fields are?
MrP
"There are two important points that must be noted. First, the Pyrrhonist is not committed to the criteria of justification form
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I think one could speak of the "objectivity of morality". I've found these three examples:
"The person who suffers loss of confidence in the objectivity of science loses pari passu their grounds for impugning the objectivity of the other term of the contrast, morality".
"The norms of objectivity which morality is deemed to fail are bound to be found, if at all, in the natu
"The person who suffers loss of confidence in the objectivity of science loses pari passu their grounds for impugning the objectivity of the other term of the contrast, morality".
"The norms of objectivity which morality is deemed to fail are bound to be found, if at all, in the natu
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MrPedanticThe first "it" refers to "ethical skepticism", and the second do2) "Smith's view is, then, that ethical skepticism is local because it is based upon a contrast between morality and some other conception of the world which describes it in itself".Just to clarify: does "it" here refer back to "world"?
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