Kaj_Sotala comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: JenniferRM 28 June 2012 09:26:10PM *  0 points [-]

Potential questions this essay could have been written to answer, that might deserve to be dissolved rather than answered directly:

  • How does moral reasoning work (and what are the implications)?

  • How do moral debates find ground in moral feelings (and what are the implications)?

  • Where does the motivational force attributed to pro-social intrinsic values come from (and what are the implications)?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 04 July 2012 07:56:44AM *  1 point [-]

Still not sure what you mean: questions one and two seem interesting but outside the scope of my essay, and I'm not sure I understand the third one. You said in your original comment that

I think this is a folk theory about how "moral intuitions" work, and I don't think that it is true, in the sense that it is a naive answer to a naive question that should have been dissolved rather than answered.

...but I don't think I really answered any of those three questions in my post.