Also “improving their moral beliefs as they mature” is a very odd concept once you think about it. How do you judge whether a moral belief is right to hold correctly without having a correct ultimate belief from the start, to do the judging?
You could say the same about “improving our standards of scientific inference.” Circular? Perhaps, but it needn’t be a vicious circle. It’s pretty clear that we’ve accomplished it, so it must be possible.
You could say the same about “improving our standards of scientific inference.” Circular? Perhaps, but it needn’t be a vicious circle. It’s pretty clear that we’ve accomplished it, so it must be possible.