Morality. It's a one way street.

[Dionysus]

eye2i2hear Wrote:

Dionysus Wrote:...do you think morality can be reduced to logic?

[strike]With the caveat that for me, Logic is logical+reason+rational, yeah[/strike]. On second thought, nopers-- but only because you used the word morality. :eekeek: I'm finding morality to be a notion of about as much practical substance as Authority, Rights, and States (and toss in Property while we're nailin'em :eekeek: 2).

Where Logic ecompasses logical+reasoning+rationale, I argue for its adequacy for conflict resolution/reduction, for which notions called morality have been sought popularly presently and in the past.

Quote:Can it be exhaustively described by a set of axioms?

Would you be so kind to clarify this question further (connect "set of axioms" with "logic") for me?

I think what I'm trying to get at, and I have a vague memory of discussing this with you before, is that if it were possible to, for example, write a "morality expert system" computer program in which you codify all the rules of morality, and someone could input a scenario into the program and get back what the moral thing to do would be, and it passes muster with human judges (a la a Turing test), a strong argument can be made that logic (on which a computer operates) and morality are essentially the same. Otherwise, I think it has to be conceded that morality transcends logic. Sorry for being so periphrastic.