What is rightness? What is correctness? If we’re all shaped by our own experiences, assumptions, and biases, what meaning, then, does the word “absolute truth” hold? So when we have religious books and religious authorities telling us whether we’re straying far from or moving close to “the truth,” what is it? Where is it?

2025年1月17日 · God is believed to be omniscient. This means that God knows all moral facts (by moral facts I mean a set of facts that rightness and wrongness of an action can be derived from) if there are any. Any intelligent agent such as humans therefore can know the moral facts. We however know that there is no moral fact.

2020年8月12日 · This rightness may be either of a descriptive or a prescriptive nature: the feeling of apprehending some truth, or of apprehending some good. Scientific knowledge of many kinds, for example, can be beautiful in its descriptive rightness, in the apprehension of truth.

2017年5月24日 · Rightness and wrongness have nothing to do with defining what is moral and what is immoral (i.e., accessing moral truths). I was using "rightness" and "wrongness" in place of "moral" and "immoral".

It must be maintained that the rightness of an action is completely independent of the motivations from which it is done. Perennial moral dilemmas are a bad thing because they imply there has been little or no moral progress in these areas. They are also a very troubling to those faced with them, especially in a real life situation.

2018年6月23日 · Evaluative Consequentialism = moral rightness depends only on the value of the consequences (as opposed to non-evaluative features of the consequences). Hedonism = the value of the consequences depends only on the pleasures and pains in the consequences (as opposed to other supposed goods, such as freedom, knowledge, life, and so on).

2015年11月25日 · Deontology is introduced second and, in contrast to consequentialism, as a system that focuses on the moral rightness of classes of actions themselves irrespective of consequences (e.g., lying is always wrong). While this is a somewhat superficially accurate description, it is almost entirely inaccurate in the spirit and aim of deontology.

2024年11月29日 · The connection between goodness and rightness is as follows: if X is good, then one ought to behave in such a manner so that X is the case. The problem, I think, in your OP is that you fail to recognize three things about ethical contemplation: (1) goodness is not necessarily about behavior, (2) goodness is largely contextual, and (3) rightness ...

I find that amusing. Biology leads to efficiency over rightness. The preservation of calories, giving only the right amount of effort. Favoring pleasantries over difficulties and hardships. Yelling at people you argue with or calling them stupid when they make a point you don't like. Simple models in place of complex one's where possible.

2015年12月24日 · How accurate is the idea of a hierarchy of needs to the human condition? Is it fluff, baseless, and too folksy to be a sound theory, or is there a correlation with a hierarchy of needs to human "happiness", "eudaimonia", or otherwise? For those who don't know the theory- here is a brief synopsis...