PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cosmological Argument, Tom Regan, Analytic Philosophy
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People may disagree about what they prefer, but. Each must give reasons to support their preferences. The 4 ways not to answer moral questions: Rule: when two people express different personal preferences, the one does not deny what the other affirms. It is possible for two opposing expressions of personal preference to be true at the same time. Give reasons for accepting their judgements of right or wrong as correct. For personal preferences, that line of questioning seems inappropriate. Although it could be true that you and i hold conflicting moral opinions, both of these opinions cannot be true at the same time. As regan puts it, our happening to think something right or wrong does not make it so. All that opinion polls reveal is what people think about various moral issues. They don"t reveal whether what people think is correct. Moral authorities: someone or thing that is never mistaken when it comes to moral questions.
