Postmodernism: Objective truth is unattainable. Knowledge is always situated. Religion: Objective truth is found in my religion & accepted via faith, Science: Objective truth is attainable in principle & attaining it is the aim but it is always provisional & open to correction.https://twitter.com/afterall_net/status/985533728381259776 …
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Also, unless you are willing to embrace complete moral reletavism, you must accept that there are some universal moral truths.
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No, I don't. I have access to only a tiny part of the universe. There is almost certainly an optimal morality for human thriving and wellbeing based on consistent needs we have. No reason to think this holds up outside us. Our evolved to very specific environmental pressures.
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How do you decide that your idea of thriving and well-being is the correct one?
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Evidence of what helps humans survive. Honestly, I have no interest in having this conversation for the billionth time. You can either search & read previous conversations or just accept I go largely with Sam Harris' argument on this.
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Ill just point out that there's more to thriving & wellbeing than mere survival and leave it at that. We can agree to disagree if you're not up for this discussion.
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Thriving. We'll be arguing about the best way to do that forever but it is basically rooted in basic common human needs. After that, for liberal humanists, there is freedom to do one's own thing as long as it harms no-one else.
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I just hope you realize that the superiority of the liberal humanist morals can't be established with empiricism alone.
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No, I didn't because I was born yesterday and have never considered morality before ever.
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The validity scientific method itself relies on some empirically unverifiable premisies, as David Hume famously pointed out, so you need metaphysics to trust science.
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Hume made some unverifiable premises himself.
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