PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moral Realism, Moral Skepticism
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Phla11 lecture 12 continuation of moral skepticism. Argument 2: the appeal to tolerance: the claim: ethical objectivism conflicts with the idea that we should be tolerant of other cultures or ways of life, suppose that ethical objectivism were true. Then some personal and social ethical codes would be morally inferior to others. And so it would be ok to treat them as such. So ethical objectivism leads to intolerance. (p. 31: sl"s response: part 1. If we believe that a person"s, or a society"s, moral views aren"t correct, what"s the morally right thing to do about it: sl"s response: part 2. If objectivism is true, then tolerance could be objectively valuable. This would make sense of the idea that we ought to be tolerant, and that people who behave intolerantly are acting wrongly. Ought" to do: subjectivism/relativism: if you/your society endorse(s) intolerance to some group of people, then you"re doing the morally right thing by acting intolerantly towards them.
