Landau continually speaks about the "truth". As that minor philosopher once said 2000 years ago, "What is truth?". Of course he said that when Truth was standing in front of him.
On what basis do realists (a la Landau) assert that "fundamental" moral "truths" are necessarily true? Because those that disagree do not have the relevant moral cognitive faculties functioning correctly?
Under Landau's view, where are these principles and how did they arise? At the time of the universe's coming into existence and as a result of its coming into existence? Or are they eternal, like Plato's Ideas, and not dependent on any universe coming into being?
I've read Edgerton...he throws into the bin all the nonsense about 'objective' moral facts and/or 'real' moral facts that are independent of cultural construction.
@lesliewilliam3777 I haven't read that book. Could you, please, make a brief exposition of the main argument/arguments that the author makes against moral realism?
Before the asteroid hits the earth, what makes Kant's dictum true? Landau would say that people who say it isn't do not have a proper functioning moral cognitive mechanism. Presents as a rational argument but his response merely begs the question and retreats to an ivory tower elitism.
Saying, for example, that one should not treat people as a means to an end is not true because it is just true. That's a non-explanation and begs the question of its being true,
