Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 03 December 2012 12:26:23AM 2 points [-]

In that case I don't understand the question the philosopher is discussing. Can you explain it to me without using the phrase "moral judgment"?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2012 04:25:07AM 1 point [-]

Well, this isn't something I'm an expert in. Most of my knowledge of the topic comes from this SEP article, which I would in any case just be summarizing if I tried to explain the debate. The article is much clearer than I'm likely to be. So you're probably just better off reading that, especially the intro and section 3: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-motivation/

That article uses the phrase 'moral judgement' of course, but anyway I think tabooing the term (rather than explaining and then using it) is probably counterproductive.

I'd of course be happy to discuss the article.