Zubon comments on Changing Your Metaethics - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 July 2008 12:36PM

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Comment author: Zubon 28 July 2008 02:09:54PM 1 point [-]

Is there a reason for the term "metamorality" rather than "meta-ethics"? Eliezer, you get occasional (frequent?) comments arguing that you are pontificating outside your area of expertise and/or re-creating the wheel while ignoring decades or centuries of established work in those areas. Making up your own term, without an explicit rejection of the existing term/ideas or any reference to existing thought, suggests ignorance. It implies that you think you are the first person ever to tread this ground, or perhaps that no one before you is even worth engaging.

Which, hey, has a long and proud history amongst philosophers. But it does not inspire confidence.