logicae

Why? Why at all? Perhaps it behooves you to think I am crazy, but the simple matter that subject, action, or object can even be mentioned brings serious issues into play. Why things are at all? Such is to be assumed because that is all that we are given and ourselves also already actualized. 

Am I insane? I do not mind a response to that question. I cannot fathom how things are and so can be comprehended. Ser means "to be" in Spanish. What I want to know is what is behind "ser" or being itself. All other things depend on that reality, but why "ser" at all? We can certainly imagine a lack of being, but little is left to clue us in to question of being. What is this ultimate reality like? 

It is quite amusing to see great  battles fought, lives lived, and debates had on such minuscule of subjects when compared to this question. I am interested in the response, though I do not expect much,  I am crazy after all. 

To Truth!

-logicae

Hey guys! *This post is not for debating for and against objective morality* Rather I would like to challenge everyone to think and search for the evidence of objective morality. The goal I think is to understand what we currently know and take for granted.

I will start us off with what I know: 

First and foremost is the world's tendency towards a moral law. Maybe it is harder for us to see directly, but everything we do is guided by a reasoning of "do or ought not do." It is easily seen when we say "should I", as you do when you make the decision to eat breakfast or go to work. This means we have an evaluation before we make an act. We obviously don't see these type of premeditation in animals (try keeping a hungry chicken from food for example XD), which points us to something else special for us. 

Now we look at our actions to see where objectivity lies. To be objectively moral means to have an objective standard by which you measure things to. When you are cut in line, or are cheated, beaten etc, we always expect the person hurting us to understand the wrongness of what he did, appealing to a common standard (which is why we want him punished). This doesn't mean that we have to follow this standard, but that we both see it. We don't expect these same standards of animals (try telling a mosquito to stop sucking blood ;), but instead expect it of those around us.

This is big, because just as we have an innate untaught sense to eat, this standard guides us beyond the likes of animals, explaining why people from all cultures and backgrounds all point to murder and atrocities such as Hitler's exterminations as objectively wrong.

(once more I only ask for brain storming on the topic of objective morality not a debate on it ;)

Please know it that I do not want a search from the perspective of a moral creator (though surly it leads it it), instead I ask we use our combined minds to reveal what we can know by observation.

I would love to see more examples of how the moral law affects our lives or how we would be without morality. These two things certainly bring us to understand how the moral law exists.