PHIL221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Meta-Ethics, Moral Skepticism, Tripe
12 Apr 2015
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The rst thing he has to do is talk about what this means - what he means by. This sentence could be very different by what you think objective means. Moral skepticism: values no part of external world. How could anyone deny there is a difference. Not: al this talk of morality is tripe (has two interpretations): 1) literal attempt to reject all of morality. 2) a way of making moral claims - objecting the convention of morality. Ex of first order claim: you should try to maximize happiness or lying is wrong (make statements of what is right or wrong) ~~normative~~ Second order moral claim: where and how values t into the world. The person who is literally rejecting all moral judgements has a debate over whether that is even coherent Make a discourse in where it is possible to believe nothing. Can i sincerely say it if there are no objective values - because you are not.
