Yep what you suggest I think isn’t far from the fact. Though note I’m open to the possibility of normative realism being false, it could be that we are all fooled and that there are no true moral facts.
I just think this question of ‘what grounds this moral experience’ is the right one to ask. On the way you’ve articulated it I just think your mere feelings about behaviours don’t amount to normative reasons for action, unless you can explain how these normative properties enter the picture.
Note that normative reasons are weird, they are not like anything descriptive, they have this weird property of what I sometimes call ‘binding oughtness’ that they rationally compel the agent to do particular things. It’s not obvious to me why your mere desires will throw up this special and weird property of binding oughtness.
Yep what you suggest I think isn’t far from the fact. Though note I’m open to the possibility of normative realism being false, it could be that we are all fooled and that there are no true moral facts.
I just think this question of ‘what grounds this moral experience’ is the right one to ask. On the way you’ve articulated it I just think your mere feelings about behaviours don’t amount to normative reasons for action, unless you can explain how these normative properties enter the picture.
Note that normative reasons are weird, they are not like anything descriptive, they have this weird property of what I sometimes call ‘binding oughtness’ that they rationally compel the agent to do particular things. It’s not obvious to me why your mere desires will throw up this special and weird property of binding oughtness.
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