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Are Moral Facts Not Natural Facts? Everything Wrong with the Shafer-Landau Thesis
Is moral truth a priori and not a natural property of the universe? So says Dr. Russ Shafer-Landau (as articulated in Whatever Happened to Good and Evil in 2003; and Moral Realism: A Defence in 2005). Even though I’m sympathetic to his project, he’s just wrong. And not merely wrong, but too obviously wrong for this to still be a thing in 21st century philosophy. Here I’ll explain why I think that.
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I believe that the mind set we call morality is absolutely a natural function common to all humans. I base this belief on myself and on first hand observations of other human beings. When I witness an injustice or am doing one myself I feel a physical repugnance, sort of a nausea that was not taught me and seems to have come with my genetic package. I have often witnessed, commonly, when a person carried away by emotion or greed, the look on their faces when they understand they're in the wrong and the remorse hits. I've seen this in children and adults. Of course I've run into maniacs and the morally bankrupt, but this is not the norm.