Re: Subjective Morality

From: hal@rain.org
Date: Tue Jan 12 1999 - 17:37:00 MST


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, <sentience@pobox.com>, writes:
> I think I can now extract the basic point of contention:
>
> Subjectivist: If there were an objective morality, I would have found it
> by now.

I don't agree. The real question is whether there is any meaning to the
term "objective morality". I don't know a definition which avoids
circularity.

Objective morality: a system for telling which actions are moral.
Moral: the quality of actions in keeping with objective morality.

Hal



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