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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is Chemical Reality Fundamental to Morality?
On the one hand, morality is completely tied to the physical situation in some very real sense. But on the other hand, it is absolutely fundamental and necessary to describe what's going on. Think about chemistry, for instance: You might say chemical reality is not fundamental because whenever you've got a molecule of hydrogen, for instance, you've got an arrangement of atomic material or subatomic material. If that's sufficient to show that moral features are non-fundamental, I can live with that if that's your conception of fundamentality. WhatI want to insist on is that what it is to be something like to be morally admirable or to be morally required is not a physical thing. It
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