Like this slider- objectivity is a spectrum. The most subjective thing possible is a pure taste satement ‘I like ice-cream’. A pure objective statement is ‘1+1=2’.
In the world of inter-subjectivity there are statements like ‘Democracy is superiour to dictatorship’. This has elements of both objectivity and subjectivity.
I think morality is an intersubjective agreement (hence the influence of culture) but supported by biological roots (we possess a biological distaste for suffering and injustice, and a biological capacity for abstract reasoning). These intersubjective agreements combined with objective biological dispositions result in something which is not as objective as mathematics or natural sciences, but possesses a degree of objectivity.
Like this slider- objectivity is a spectrum. The most subjective thing possible is a pure taste satement ‘I like ice-cream’. A pure objective statement is ‘1+1=2’.
In the world of inter-subjectivity there are statements like ‘Democracy is superiour to dictatorship’. This has elements of both objectivity and subjectivity.
I think morality is an intersubjective agreement (hence the influence of culture) but supported by biological roots (we possess a biological distaste for suffering and injustice, and a biological capacity for abstract reasoning). These intersubjective agreements combined with objective biological dispositions result in something which is not as objective as mathematics or natural sciences, but possesses a degree of objectivity.