Quote:
Originally Posted by tompe
Truths? How can a moral statement be true?
I know that Objectivism tries to show that moral statements can be true but that is just bad philosophy.
|
A lot of people have washed their hands of the debate over that point.....
I follow C.P Snow's falsification methodology, myself. It states that you can't know any theory to be true, you can only disprove it. Thereby limiting truth to a smaller and smaller area. Of course, how do you limit it? By using reproducible facts do measure with. Are those fact true? Yep, it bites it's own tail... Still, with an engineer's viewpoint, it does work.
Can you limit moral statements the same way? To a limited amount, inasmuch as there are few way to get reproducible tests of moral statements. And you have to have a bedrock axiom to start with. My bedrock axiom is axioms that directly lead to death (on both an individual scale and and societal scale) are false. I.e. not true, bad. The reason for that is that dead people no longer have a morality (or anything else) to apply...
Of course, your mileage may vary.....