Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:20 pm
I have found a way to think of morality, or the priniple of it, as being objective, albeit that I may be the only one who thinks of it in such a way. Morality is objective in the sense that it exists within the human psyche.
Hold on, though.
Leprechauns "exist within the human psyche." So does the flat-earth theory...that, too is a phenomenon of human psyche, and at one time, a universal one.
Lust, greed, aggression, covetousness, deceptiveness, hatred...all exist within the human psyche. Where else? Are they "moral"?
The human being is programmed...
Whoops! Passsive voice.
That means a sentence with no "doer" specified.
Before we go on, who is your "programmer"?
...with the capacity and propencity for adopting a system of morality.
The "programmer" is an entity capable of creating this thing called "morality"? And he puts it into the human psyche? Please continue...
This is so obvious that it accounts for the fact that it never occurs to those of us who have no vested interest in resisting that thought to even bother putting it into words, which is why we don't have those words readily available when called upon to produce them.
The impulse to believe in morality is subconscious, you mean? And some of us, if we spend time thinking about it, maybe, can also process it consciously? We can "put it into words," but they cannot, because although they're "programmed" justs as we are, they "don't have those world readily available?"
Am I with you, so far?
All we need now is to explain how it came to be that impersonal forces, or evolution, "came up with" the idea to program us, universally, for a thing that has no reality outside the psyche. Once we understand that, maybe the problem of morality will indeed be solved...
...and we'll all suddenly realize that none of us really needed to be moral at all. Rather like Nietzsche said.
