Unbeatable
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2005
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- Basic Beliefs
- moral and existential nihilism, igtheism, dysteleology, pragmatic methodological naturalism
How do you identify a person's real moral code, be it your own or someone else's? Can a person be mistaken about whether they have one, or what it contains? If so, how? What exactly are its constituents? How does one define the distinction between a moral and an amoral individual?
I've seen it argued that anyone whose behavior is not random is behaving according to something which can be called a morality. But I've also seen it argued that a person's true morality is revealed in their attitudes of approval/disapproval regarding others' actions. And I've seen it argued that one's morality is a set of beliefs that one consciously endorses.
I don't know about the majority, but if I applied each of these operational definitions to myself, I'd end up with three different sets of conclusions as to whether I have a "morality" at all, and what exactly it consists of. So, how do you decide between these(and perhaps others)?
I've seen it argued that anyone whose behavior is not random is behaving according to something which can be called a morality. But I've also seen it argued that a person's true morality is revealed in their attitudes of approval/disapproval regarding others' actions. And I've seen it argued that one's morality is a set of beliefs that one consciously endorses.
I don't know about the majority, but if I applied each of these operational definitions to myself, I'd end up with three different sets of conclusions as to whether I have a "morality" at all, and what exactly it consists of. So, how do you decide between these(and perhaps others)?