I agree with your comment, except that there are some meaningful definitions of morality and moral progress that don’t require morality to be anything but a property of the agents who feel compelled by it, and which don’t just assume that whatever happens is progress.
(In essence, it is possible— though very difficult for human beings— to figure out what the correct extrapolation from our confused notions of morality might be, remembering that the “correct” extrapolation is itself going to be defined in terms of our current morality and aesthetics. This actually ends up going somewhere, because our moral intuitions are a crazy jumble, but our more meta-moral intuitions like non-contradiction and universality are less jumbled than our object-level intuitions.)
I agree with your comment, except that there are some meaningful definitions of morality and moral progress that don’t require morality to be anything but a property of the agents who feel compelled by it, and which don’t just assume that whatever happens is progress.
(In essence, it is possible— though very difficult for human beings— to figure out what the correct extrapolation from our confused notions of morality might be, remembering that the “correct” extrapolation is itself going to be defined in terms of our current morality and aesthetics. This actually ends up going somewhere, because our moral intuitions are a crazy jumble, but our more meta-moral intuitions like non-contradiction and universality are less jumbled than our object-level intuitions.)