Morality

The branch of philosophy dealing with what one ought to do next, and why.

No ultimate foundation exists for morality — it improves through conjecturing theories and criticisms. Morality is Objective and improvable, just like scientific knowledge. Moral progress is real and proceeds through the same mechanism as all knowledge growth.

Connections

• •Objective — moral truths exist independently of opinion
• •Improvable through Conjecture and Criticism — like all Knowledge
• •No foundation — moral knowledge is conjectural
• •Related to Aesthetics — another domain of objective, improvable knowledge
• •Ideologies contain moral claims that may resist criticism
• •Suffering is a moral problem demanding solutions
• •The Principle of Optimism implies moral problems are solvable
• •Coercion is morally problematic because it blocks knowledge creation
• •Part of Epistemology broadly — the growth of moral knowledge follows the same pattern