tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post5999758427610899496..comments2024-01-28T06:24:50.005+00:00Comments on No Double Standards: Letter to Thomas Reid II: On DesirismMartin Freedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952072422175870627noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-29498518525796622532012-01-05T15:14:18.322+00:002012-01-05T15:14:18.322+00:00What a complicated and thus utterly useless moral ...What a complicated and thus utterly useless moral theory! I get that we daily use our intuitions (Luke Muelhauser's way of getting out of doing complicated calculations), but if one doesn't know whether an action is good or bad and has to determine which desires to take into consideration, whose desires to take to consideration, which desires are stronger when it comes to Desirism, then one does have to do mental gymnastics to come to a conclusion. This complication is evidenced by Desirism's defendants having to clarify and clarify and clarify and clarify how Desirism works and then clarify and clarify some more. We see the same ongoing clarification process going on at CSA. Desirism is great at explaining social behavior, but is complicated and useless when trying to figure out morals. So while it looks good on paper (or in THEORY rather), it's useless when attempting to put into practice, especially when it gets the results backwards; but my bad-I'm just not understanding it properly.<br /><br />-PaulaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-6505007126479219222009-11-11T03:09:57.642+00:002009-11-11T03:09:57.642+00:00faithlessgod,
I've posted a second letter:
h...faithlessgod,<br /><br />I've posted a second letter:<br /><br />http://merelymist.blogspot.com/2009/11/letter-2-to-faithlessgod.htmlThomas Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06036155245491027269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-29934815059478582492009-11-08T15:52:59.470+00:002009-11-08T15:52:59.470+00:00Thanks again for your comments. Indeed I am attem...Thanks again for your comments. Indeed I am attempting an understanding of the theory and what I believe are reasonable objections to it. Your comments are helping me do that.<br />ThomasThomas Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06036155245491027269noreply@blogger.com