Subjective? Objective? Something Else?
It is common to hear many reduce morality to it either being subjective or objective, but how accurate is that?
Are people defining these terms properly? Are there correct definitions for the context?
If one part of morality is subjective, does that make it all subjective?
Well, tonight these two atheists, discuss the difference, one taking the stance from a philosophical point of view (Dave) the other (Kriss) taking a contemporary atheist approach.
Related Articles and Podcasts on Morality
- On Morality: Defining Our Terms
- On Morality: Moral Subjectivism
- CMT: Subjective / Objective Morals / Morality
- Is Value Entirely Subjective?
- On Value
- Podcast: Morality – S01:E03
- Podcast: What is Morality?
- Podcast: Moral Subjectivism and Relativism
Further Reading
Blackburn, S. (2003) Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, Oxford.
Blackburn, S. (2016) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy 3/e, OUP Oxford, Oxford.
Cruft, R. (2005) ‘Human Rights and Positive Duties’, Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 29-37
Glover, J. (1990) Causing Death and Saving Lives, Penguin, London.
Hardin, G. (1974) ‘Lifeboat Ethics- the Case Against Helping the Poor’, Psychology Today
Mackie, J.L. (1990) Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin, London
Singer, P. (1972). ‘Famine, affluence and morality’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 229–43
Singer, P. (2011) Practical Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
SEP: Moral Anti-Realism
SEP: Moral Realism
SEP: Moral Relativism
YT: Philosophy Overdose – ‘The Absurdity of Moral Relativism & Subjectivism – A Polemic’
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