Ethical Commands

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Ethical Commands Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 04:43:42 6f14c5 No.2027

What does it mean for ethical statements to be commands? (as opposed to statements of objective fact, "murder is wrong," or statements of relativism, "i hate murder.") Who or what is commanding? What do these entail?

Does this concept have a name? Prescriptivism?

Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 04:46:58 6f14c5 No.2028

>>2027

And I'm 90% sure this is a really dumb and simple concept, and that I'm looking too much into it...

Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 17:05:17 e64bba No.2029

>literally 5 seconds in Google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cognitivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_command_theory

Anonymous 09/14/15 (Mon) 18:37:46 42003e No.2031

>>2027

What's the issue? Did you ever really think ethics is merely a suggestion?

>You should do this

Implies you can have some ambivalence on your part to choose to be moral at your whim and it's alright. The problem is that if you care about ethics at all it isn't merely a suggestion, it's a necessary command (imperative) that you do what is ethical, no choice in the matter since you MUST be ethical.

Ethics is about what you must do, not what you should. This is assuming you really take ethics seriously, which clearly most of us don't.