What is rightness? - The Philosophy Forum 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,”
Are moral truths accessible? - The Philosophy Forum It seems rather that more definitions are required 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"
In any objective morality existence is inherently good How do you derive rightness from goodness? — MoK Good is what should be Rightness is the fulfillment of what should be So good is helping a poor person get back on their feet The action of helping them back on their feet is a right action "Good" and "Right" are oftentimes also synonyms and interchanged in colloquial speech
Reading group: Negative Dialectics by Theodor Adorno with the rightness or wrongness of such criteria which, looked at naïvely from the standpoint of factuality or givenness, appear as speculative By uttering the word ‘appear’, I have arrived for the first time in these lectures at a distinction that cannot be taken seriously enough and that, if there is such a thing as a criterion of what is
Does might make right? - The Philosophy Forum If democratic decision making prevails, then the basis of rightness will rest in the might of the whole group Democratic or autocratic might will define what is right, and as many have discovered, democratic might can be as unfavorable to outliers as autocratic might can be
A defense and extension of W. D. Ross ethics of prima facie duties . . . 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
The nature of beauty. High and low art. - The Philosophy Forum I hold that beauty is, broadly speaking, the experience of apprehending something that seems, in some way or another, right 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
Believing in God does not resolve moral conflicts 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 Thus, believing in God does not resolve moral conflicts
Why ought one do that which is good? - The Philosophy Forum 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 can be pragmatic Viz ,: 1) Goodness is just