> How would you justify your “quasi realist” position. You want future Holden to look back on you. Why? Should others hold this preference? What if I wanted past Parrhesia to respect future Parrhesia. Should I weigh this more than future Parrhesia respecting past Parrhesia? I don’t think this is meta-ethically justified. Can you really say there is nothing objectively wrong with torturing a baby for sadistic pleasure?
I don’t think we can justify every claim with reference to some “foundation.” At some point we have to say something like “This is how it seems to me; maybe, having articulated it, it’s how it seems to you too; if not, I guess we can agree to disagree.” That’s roughly what I’m doing with respect to a comment like “I’d like to do things that a future Holden distinguished primarily by having learned and reflected more would consider ethical.”
> How would you justify your “quasi realist” position. You want future Holden to look back on you. Why? Should others hold this preference? What if I wanted past Parrhesia to respect future Parrhesia. Should I weigh this more than future Parrhesia respecting past Parrhesia? I don’t think this is meta-ethically justified. Can you really say there is nothing objectively wrong with torturing a baby for sadistic pleasure?
I don’t think we can justify every claim with reference to some “foundation.” At some point we have to say something like “This is how it seems to me; maybe, having articulated it, it’s how it seems to you too; if not, I guess we can agree to disagree.” That’s roughly what I’m doing with respect to a comment like “I’d like to do things that a future Holden distinguished primarily by having learned and reflected more would consider ethical.”