I have been accusing utilitarians of arbitrariness for over a decade, although it's only since I had ready access to DALL-E that I was able to make a blog post about it filled with pretty pictures: https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/atheism-or-utilitarianism
I do realize that in philosophy, intuition is often regarded as meaningful. How successful has philosophy been compared to other disciplines? In science, intuitions lead to hypotheses, which are tested with evidence. Intuitions are extremely useful, but they are most definitely not good evidence, because they are heavily biased. Intuitive thinking leads to Geocentrism, sympathetic magic, moralizing gods, and arguments like this:
> Saying "yeah, this is just true” and getting asked “how do you know?” and saying “it just seems true” actually seems really unscientific and unconvincing, but it is all we have. We must ground reality and ethical reality in our intuitive sense of what is right and what is wrong.
Nein, genug! Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
I have been accusing utilitarians of arbitrariness for over a decade, although it's only since I had ready access to DALL-E that I was able to make a blog post about it filled with pretty pictures: https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/atheism-or-utilitarianism
I do realize that in philosophy, intuition is often regarded as meaningful. How successful has philosophy been compared to other disciplines? In science, intuitions lead to hypotheses, which are tested with evidence. Intuitions are extremely useful, but they are most definitely not good evidence, because they are heavily biased. Intuitive thinking leads to Geocentrism, sympathetic magic, moralizing gods, and arguments like this:
> Saying "yeah, this is just true” and getting asked “how do you know?” and saying “it just seems true” actually seems really unscientific and unconvincing, but it is all we have. We must ground reality and ethical reality in our intuitive sense of what is right and what is wrong.
Nein, genug! Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.