ethics
Why Moral Subjectivism Doesn’t Imply Moral Relativism
I seem to spend an awful lot of time defending my moral anti-realism from claims that without objective moral values, then morality is merely subjective.
However, this equivocates over two possible senses of ‘subjective.’
Given I don’t believe there are objective moral values, I do subscribe to a subjectivism of sorts. However, it’s not the subjectivism that says ‘what is right and wrong is entirely down to what I believe is right and wrong at the time.’ This kind of subjectivism slides easily into mad-dog moral relativism, a kind of free-for-all where the justification for any moral norm is that I believe it to be so.
That’s not the kind of subjectivism I’m in to.