Titlebook: Can‘t We Make Moral Judgements?; Mary Midgley Book 1993 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1993 moral.morality.philosop

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9330-3Factual statements, then, do not carry a guarantee of completeness and finality. When we understand this, we have largely got rid of the false contrast between an absolute and infallible kind of factual knowledge and a supposedly loose speculation about values. The question about value-judgements then gets much easier.

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Scepticism and Liberty,For the moment, what has been said about knowledge here is designed only to show why the subject matters, and how important it is to distinguish these sceptical considerations about the possibility of knowledge from substantial moral considerations about the need to let other people alone and the value of freedom.

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Why Must We Not Interfere?,Turning then to our outstanding moral question, we ask: how much does personal freedom matter, and why?

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Doubts, Reasonable and Otherwise,We come back now to issues about the nature of knowledge—to the question whether moral judgement is in some sense impossible because we do not have knowledge about values.

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What About Values?,Factual statements, then, do not carry a guarantee of completeness and finality. When we understand this, we have largely got rid of the false contrast between an absolute and infallible kind of factual knowledge and a supposedly loose speculation about values. The question about value-judgements then gets much easier.

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Back to the Main Question,Have we answered our original question? Can’t we, after all, make moral judgements?