Why Morality is Objective

Introduction

The only intelligible measure of morality involves well-being juxtaposed with unnecessary suffering. The former -including necessary suffering- is that which leads to greater well-being (morally good) and the latter is that which takes away from whatever leads to greater well-being or well-being itself (morally bad). These are the facts in the world that are relevant to morality. Given this axiom, once we are in the domain of talking about states of subjectivity, we are also in the domain of talking about objective states at the level of the brain. Truths about morality, in turn, are objective. They are predicated upon subject/object parallelism supported by neuropsychology. That is to say, there are objective-facts which are in turn supervened by ethical-facts. The existence of well-being and suffering are facts in the world, which by themselves are non-ethical facts, that form the basis of all ethical-facts. In turn, you can derive an ought from an is, contrary to what David Hume believed, which was that facts in the world were irrelevant to our moral intuitions, as the latter is wholly dictated by the passions. We can be justified in a non-accidentally reliable manner, which is predicated upon empirical and phenomenological evidence, in making this conclusion.

It is no easy task in academic circles to merely accept any particular axiom. Axioms are…