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Von_Kessel t1_j9212sy wrote

Reply to comment by contractualist in The Ontology and Epistemology of Morality by contractualist

Probably not what you want to hear but there are a lot of spooks in your definitions. Freedom and reason are both spooks that I would aver don’t have good definitions in principle and thus cannot form a basis for a derived morality.

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contractualist OP t1_j924ssq wrote

Thanks for the review! I describe what I mean by freedom here and its moral relevance here, if that helps at all.

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Von_Kessel t1_j929gja wrote

Helpful for sure but if you have read some Stirner you know what I mean. Fundamentally freedom as a concept is something that’s been endowed to you to mean something from how others constructed and defined it (or in a contradistinction) . That does not mean it’s a salient term to abide by in a super construct called morality. The corollary cannot be supposed if the prior supposition is nonsense

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