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Accept or lean towards: moral realism62.07% (61.55%)
Reject or lean against: moral realism 0.35% (0.00%)
Accept or lean towards: moral anti-realism 26.12% (25.77%)
Reject or lean against: moral anti-realism 0.41% (0.00%)
Accept a combination of views 0.93%
Accept an alternative view 2.44%
The question is too unclear to answer 3.49%
There is no fact of the matter 0.87%
Agnostic/undecided 4.25%
Other 0.70%
Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that they report those features accurately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism#:
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Last edited by Veritas Aequitas on Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
The above 2019 is not precisely comparable to the 2020 survey because the respondents are not the same.
However the larger % in both survey that accept Moral Realism is indicative of the point.
Note the above is merely a statement from a survey done by https://philpapers.org/
which is a reputable philosophical site.
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Obviously we must not accept the results of the above blindly must do further research for more verifications and justifications.
However, given the above views from the survey, those [like Peter Holmes, etc.] who insist that moral realism and objective moral statements are nonsense should think twice about their dogmatic views.