AlexMennen comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 30 June 2012 06:01AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 July 2012 06:48:57AM 0 points [-]

I can see that... one of the obvious problems that we can find some case where the meta-ethical systems go against our moral intuitions. This sometimes leads to attempt to make the meta-ethics incorporate this case (and then some more), but I feel it quickly becomes rather obvious that we cannot come up with any consistent system that also satisfies our intuitions. I'm a bit pessimistic philosophers will resolve this problem soon...

Reasoning about, e.g., mathematics or physics has the same problem, and yet in those fields we can still build the system on our intuitions while accepting that they're sometimes wrong.