Are there any objective moral facts?

Question

ABRIDGED
Kos K.. – No.

Jabbe.. – oral systems like any other system have basic assumptions; no objective moral facts.
:: Similarly, there can be no one universal human conscience.

Goody.. – For every mainstream objective truth that is lacking, there are those that are not.

Scoti.. – Circumstances and timing of action: Ethics and morality lies in an objective truth at that moment of the time, altering as circumstances and time moves on.

Terry.. – Morality is a way of thinking about things based on principles. Principles, something not deniable without self contradiction, are used to navigate through facts..are there real moral principles just a set of arbitrary rules that pretends it is more ? Adler contends that there are real moral principles. “The key is to realize that what you think is a good thing may not be..; a person ought to have every necessity as determine through a more specific science or art form.”

I don.. – Determine the hierarchy of values and try to attain them..

Eevay.. – The most basic rules may akin to a common sense.

Kyala.. – Objective moral facts lend themselves to collective norms and standards.

Answer 1

one must determine his or her hierarchy of values and try to attain them......



life
honorable life
love
truth
beauty
...
...
nationalism


I skipped many of them in between...

You should order your values first... like the one above...

The first two are absolutes and objective............

Answer 2

You might want to look at Mortimer Adler's work on this subject. I really don't like trying to paraphrase him, but here's a try:

Facts are about things. Morality isn't a thing--it's a way of thinking about things. Rather than facts, morality--like mathematics, for example---is based on principles. You take those principles and use them to think about the facts around you.

A principle is something you can't deny without contradicting yourself. One of the more famous ones in philosophy is Descartes's famous line, "I think, therefore I am." What he meant was, "Even if I think I don't exist, that proves I exist. If I don't exist, then who is thinking that I don't?"

To believe that Descartes is wrong, you have to assume that you're not thinking. Did you stop thinking when you thought that?

So the real question is, are there real moral principles? Or is morality just a set of arbitrary rules that pretends it's more? Adler would say, "Yes, there are real moral principles--there is certainly one. One that you can't deny without contradicting yourself, the way Descartes showed you can't deny that you exist.

"The key is to realize that what you think is a good thing may not be. A miser, for instance, who thinks money is the only good thing there is, can live a miserable life. So someone who knows what is really good for him is going to have a better life than someone who doesn't.

"The short form of the principle would be--

"A person ought to have everything he REALLY NEEDS.

"Then you turn to the other sciences and philosophies and figure out just what 'everything he REALLY NEEDS' is. That's the place to argue."

Don't know how well I got that across, but I hope it helps.

Answer 3

This is a loaded question because the answer depends on the circumstances and timing of the action.

Ethics/morality is based on fear to enable self-preservation on a particular individual at a particular moment in time. What may be moral for a particular individual at a particular time is an objective fact. Ten minutes later, the circumstances of living may have changed and thus changing the morality of a particular action.

For example, at this moment you could think that killing anyone under any circumstance is immoral. Ten minutes from now, someone may walk up behind you and place a knife to your throat and say he was going to kill you. In the rush to escape, you accidently cause him to fall on his own knife. Going by the orginal definition, you commited an immoral act. However the circumstances changed requiring you to change your views.

Answer 4

All systems of logic must have their basic assumptions. A moral system is no different. Therefore their are no objective moral facts.

Answer 5

While there may be no largely philosophical objective truths (killing always wrong, abortion never right etc), as cultural diversity makes it almost impossible for every society to agree in unison, I believe there are some. For example...

... listening to Hilary Duff's 'music' is always wrong...

Answer 6

maybe the most basic ones, such as not to kill innocent people...its like a rule, isn't it? It's like common sense...that's what i think

Answer 7

yes, they all are in reference to collective norms and standards.

Answer 8

no