Ethics

By A. Feltz, E. T. Cokely

The thought experiment presented above is designed to assess intuitions that are central to people’s beliefs about moral objectivism. Moral objec- tivism, as we will use the term, is the view there are some moral statements that are true or false independent of what anyone thinks about the con- tents of those statements (Mackie, 1977). In simple terms, while some people think morality is relative to what people think about those issues, most moral objectivists think that some things are just clear-cut right or wrong regardless of one’s situation, culture, or values. Debates about moral objectivism have been central parts of contemporary ethics for thousands of years. As will come as no surprise to the reader by now, there is persistent debate about whether moral objectivism is true. These

Diversity and Disagreement,, 40p.