PHIL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Fallibilism, Moral Skepticism
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Ethical objectivism: there are moral truths that hold independently of what anyone believes; moral truths are discovered, not created. If people possess equal rights to an opinion about x, then their opinions about x are equally plausible: people possess equal rights to an opinion about morality, therefore, people"s opinion about morality are all equally plausible. Problems: if p1 is true, it undermines a great deal of our knowledge. Well-informed and rational people disagree about a great number of things. There are objective moral truths, but they can be very hard to know. ) Argument from occam"s razor: we have reason to believe something only if it is explanatorily indispensable, moral truths are not explanatorily indispensible, we have no reason to believe in moral truths. They are normative truths about what we have reason to do.
