If anybody here wants to debate the issue that Morality is Objective, I'm your Huckleberry.
and I won't be invoking God in my argument.
please explain
I believe there is real mental or moral causality in the universe, and consequently, there is a moral dimension of reality that exists objectively, rather than subjectively.
Most everyone considers mathematical
knowledge to be objective knowledge, and I believe, and can logically argue,
that moral knowledge is objective in much the same way that mathematical knowledge
is objective. There are many objective
facts that are based on human nature and so I believe that morality is grounded in
human nature and is therefore objective, and as mentioned above, I do not
believe that one needs to invoke God to make the case.
The caveat being recognition that morality is a matter of human conduct, it's about how human beings "ought" to act, so if by "Objective Morality" we mean morality that would exist
independently of human beings, then I think that is a meaningless question. To
question objective morality independently of human beings is to pose the
question in the context of a reality in which logic, science, morality, reasoning,
questions and arguments don’t exist. The simple
objective fact is that human beings experience a reality that includes values,
purposes, and meanings. The very idea that these and related concepts such as
morality can be evaluated in some kind of contrived context that is independent
of human beings is meaningless.
If we
understand objective knowledge to be knowledge based on observation of the real
world, as is the case with objective scientific or mathematical knowledge, then
I think that moral knowledge is also arrived at by observation and can be
considered objective.