I’m not sure you are framing the key questions quite as directly and clearly as you could. Both morality and our wants are things we can be uncertain about, and so change our minds about. The claim that there is a morality beyond our mere wants, “what the universe wants” if you will, seems coherent and hard to exclude. The claim that many if not most people want, at least in part, to act morally also seems coherent and hard to exclude. So to me the key questions are:
How much do we actually want to be moral? I suggest we pretend to want to be moral than we do.
What evidence do we really have for our beliefs about which acts actually are moral? What we know about the causal origins of our moral intuitions doesn’t obviously give us reason to believe they are correlated with moral truth. Some claim it is incoherent to not want to always act morally, but I find that view hard to understand.
I’m not sure you are framing the key questions quite as directly and clearly as you could. Both morality and our wants are things we can be uncertain about, and so change our minds about. The claim that there is a morality beyond our mere wants, “what the universe wants” if you will, seems coherent and hard to exclude. The claim that many if not most people want, at least in part, to act morally also seems coherent and hard to exclude. So to me the key questions are:
How much do we actually want to be moral? I suggest we pretend to want to be moral than we do.
What evidence do we really have for our beliefs about which acts actually are moral? What we know about the causal origins of our moral intuitions doesn’t obviously give us reason to believe they are correlated with moral truth. Some claim it is incoherent to not want to always act morally, but I find that view hard to understand.