does blackburn/gibbard quasi-realism count as realism in this context?
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Replying to @peligrietzer
It’s, like, in the middle between plausible and magic, it’s the magnetism of meta ethical positions.
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Replying to @lastpositivist
i'm kinda of confused about your own take. like, when you say 'i know what my commitments are' -- you've gotta be, like, the only person i ever met who knows what their commitments are
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Replying to @lastpositivist
e.g. you have a definite take on, like, repugnant conclusion stuff, that obviates any drive towards reflection?
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Replying to @peligrietzer @lastpositivist
on how to quantify well-being? on desire-satisfactions vs hedonics? on how to count the well-being of insects?
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Replying to @peligrietzer @lastpositivist
is there anyone on record that articulates a metaethical positions close to your take? i'm pretty startled and confused by this, it's so much more hardcore than anti moral anti-realism i know, and i identify as a moral anti-realist
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Replying to @peligrietzer
Mackie is close. But I've never found a philosopher or poet who I think well expresses the truly normatively blank universe. (`Normative' to note that I think this goes for much more than morality. E.g. I also find it bizarre when people think there's real epistemic normativity.)
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Replying to @lastpositivist
Weirdly for me the issue isn't classic normative blankness but whether implicit commitments are a thing. Like, the kind of moral nihilism I'm bothered about is more Kripkenstein re: content of commitments than Mackie
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Replying to @peligrietzer @lastpositivist
But, like, Kripkenstein giveth as well as taketh away, in that really all commitments are implicit commitments so trying to follow whatever semi-effable life-philosophy in your moral choices may not be more null than trying to follow mathematically specified utilitarian formula
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I guess I saw that through the lens of aforementioned normative nullification - there’s in the end just the stuff we do, not even justified by our past behaviour or commitments. It’s Ineffable cos it ain’t there!
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