COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Naturalistic Fallacy, Intentionality
10 Feb 2020
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Agent-relativity doesn"t account for the role of ethical reasoning in moral discourse. Ethics concerns actions that we insist upon or demand from other people: the ac affirms the consequent. Thus, agent relativity is an insufficient account of morality: the framework commits the naturalistic fallacy. Ac doesn"t establish a normative theory: the framework doesn"t justify why subjective valuation is the only way to construct moral principles. It is a necessary component of morality, but not a sufficient one: human beings cannot be self-legislating. If we frame our own rules then we are both the law giver and the law follower which is nonsensical. At framework to critical reflection and correction in the light of other reasons. Thus morality can"t be derived from subjective value: the ac needs a metastandard for determining which scientific procedures count as relevant at determining the intent of individuals.
