Books On Objective Morality. Objective morality means that there is a standard of morality that transcends human opinions and judgements. Objective morality an objective basis for morality can be found in an evolutionary account of its origin and development.
One definition i read said that objective morality is “the idea that a certain system of ethics or set of moral judgments is not just true according to a person’s subjective opinion, but is absolutely and undeniably true for everyone.”. If objective morality is transcendent then it needs a. One might put this priority rule in a slightly different way.
Morality is the standard by which we determine what is good.
I’ve read james rachel’s “the elements of moral philosophy”, ross shafer landau’s “the fundamentals of ethics”, and steven m. We can no more come up with a novel morality which is in no way connected to an objective morality than we can come up with a new way of breathing. In this sense, it is ‘outside’ of one’s personal limited faculties. In fact objective morality sits in judgment of man’s desires and preferences.