tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post5922437367634937105..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: A little bit more about "is" and "ought"Russell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-84486204730407117632009-02-20T22:47:00.000+11:002009-02-20T22:47:00.000+11:00Don't values come from purposes?Humans have a broa...Don't values come from purposes?<BR/><BR/>Humans have a broad range of common purposes: both primal and more derivative. To say we are purposive beings is to say we are valuing beings.<BR/><BR/>So it is our purposive nature, which evolved to be purposive, indeed unusually complexly so, which drives our values.<BR/><BR/>Given compatible purposes, we can reach moral agreement. Even if that means foregoing some to preserve, or at least better facilitate, others. Without such compatible purposes, the outlook is less good.<BR/><BR/>A certain capacity for mutual acknowledgment is involved too. If that capacity is absent or foregone, then things are grim too. But such mutual acknowledgment is itself about how far we push or direct our purposes.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.com