Ways to Say "Should"
There is good reason to believe that moral entities do not exist objectively, because it is a matter of empirical fact that people disagree about them in a way that they do not disagree about physical reality.
There is good reason to believe that moral entities do not exist objectively, because it is a matter of empirical fact that people disagree about them in a way that they do not disagree about physical reality.
It Is Never the Thing Itself It is almost never the thing itself that harms or heals us; it is our relation to the thing. Take smallpox: once, it devastated entire civilizations. Now it is, for all practical purposes, powerless against us. The agent did not undergo some grand metaphysical...
Old Ideas in New Moments We are surrounded by prefashioned beliefs. Much of what we seem to know has not arisen from a fresh encounter with reality, but has been handed down already formed, inherited from prior consciousnesses that stood in their own particular relations to the world. Those beliefs...