PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Relativism, Theism, Scientific Theory
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Phla11 lecture 13 continuation of moral disagreement & morality and god. The problem is not, or not just, the quantity of disagreement, but whether there are reliable methods that can be used to resolve them. There are no moral claims that are objectively true. : this is a philosophical claim. The skeptic cannot without undermining her own position say that if a claim cannot be established empirically, then it cannot be objectively true. Prinz: appeals to the presence of intractable moral disagreement to argue for relativism. But a problem: it"s not clear that relativism, or subjectivism, can even recognize that there is a phenomenon of moral disagreement to begin with! Or: subjectivism and relativism internally contradictory, subjectivism and relativism make moral disagreement impossible. It seems that acc. to subjectivism, abortion is both morally permissible and impermissible. So, subjectivism is internally contradictory, and thus cannot be true.
