I just hope you realize that the superiority of the liberal humanist morals can't be established with empiricism alone.
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Replying to @adamckolasinski
No, I didn't because I was born yesterday and have never considered morality before ever.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No need to apologize. I enjoyed the exchange. I am new to your work, so i did not realize you have already gotten into lots of exchanges like this. Have a nice day!
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Replying to @adamckolasinski
I need a Twitter break. Thanks for being understanding. I shall now chill.pic.twitter.com/OcWc2dy8CB
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Just a question 4 you after you come back from your break. Have you written anything justifying your rejection of Hume's is/ought divide? I'd love to read the argument, so please send me the reference.
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Replying to @adamckolasinski
No, because I hate this topic. The argument is that everything comes down to 'is' in the end because everything, including our morality is biologically based. But it's just too complicated and multi-faceted to trace everything back and we have to make arguments instead abt ought.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski
We don't know enough but if you believe that the most objective morality we can get is an optimum human morality, it takes a huge number of factors to establish exactly what that is so we have to make arguments based on human wellbeing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Since you've not written on it, who do you think has made the best case for your position, or some close approximation to it? Sam Harris? Anyone else?
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Replying to @adamckolasinski
Sam Harris, probably, yes. The Moral Landscape.
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James argues it best to me but he is also sick of philosophising. https://twitter.com/GodDoesnt/status/973184878694092800 …
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