Meta-rebuttal of Objective Morality Argument
Ethics, Philosophy, Reviews October 18th, 2009A first reaction on CS Lewis’s Mere Christianity: he really likes inductive arguments and arguments by analogy. He attempts to use these to argue for the existence of objective morality. But, given that both these forms of argument require some subjective value judgments, how is it possible to arrive at a non-subjective conclusion? Or to put it another way, if he needs to subjectively decide on what basis an analogy is valid, the conclusion must be equally subjective. Or to put it a third way, subjective axioms lead to subjective conclusions.
And don’t get me started with his comparisons of a-priori/tautological knowledge (e.g. mathematics) and a posteriori knowledge (morality in this case).
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PS Perhaps I should have followed Zarathustra’s advice (emphasis mine):
But Zarathustra came not to say unto all those liars and fools:
“What do ye know of virtue! What could ye know of virtue!”

October 26th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
An even simpler way of understanding my point is to read his work with the Is-ought problem firmly in mind…
NOW try to arrive at an objective morality using a posteriori methods!
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