What is the most misused philosophical concept (either by philosophers themselves or the general public)?
Taking instinctive moral disgust as any sort of reliable guide to normative ethics.
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Not sure it's not relevant at all -- at least if ethics is in part about promoting human flourishing. Moral instincts might be adaptations.
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Taking instinctive human specific disgust and calling it anything related to morality. Taking resultant ethics of that and perceiving them to have anything with morality either. Taking the human to have any non-incidental moral value, for that matter.
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What ethical system do you know of that doesn't appeal to moral instincts?
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Philosophy seems the study of WEIRD intuitions
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@primalpoly : you might be interested in this recent paper : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rati.12233 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So true...
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Although most moral disgust is trained, not instinctive these days, I'm pretty convinced.
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