I just wanted to comment to say I’m very confused about this question/framing—I tried to figure out why and I think it’s something to do with uncertainty about what “objective” even means. Wondering if anyone has a good exploration of what it means for a thing to be objective?
(My intuition is that I have a “sense of the objective” and that that is pointing at “things I anticipate other people will agreeing with”, or “things I’d feel annoyed/crazy if people contradicted”, - this would point to there being at thing that is objective morality, but is argued from a subjective frame so I’m not sure that’s right—so is there an objective definition of objectivity?)
Objective just means that its truth doesn’t depend on what people think about it. The Earth being round is objective—even if everyone thought it was flat, it wouldn’t be.
I just wanted to comment to say I’m very confused about this question/framing—I tried to figure out why and I think it’s something to do with uncertainty about what “objective” even means.
Wondering if anyone has a good exploration of what it means for a thing to be objective?
(My intuition is that I have a “sense of the objective” and that that is pointing at “things I anticipate other people will agreeing with”, or “things I’d feel annoyed/crazy if people contradicted”, - this would point to there being at thing that is objective morality, but is argued from a subjective frame so I’m not sure that’s right—so is there an objective definition of objectivity?)
Objective just means that its truth doesn’t depend on what people think about it. The Earth being round is objective—even if everyone thought it was flat, it wouldn’t be.