Hi Lionel. I've had Binmore's Natural Justice on my reading list for a long time, I'm gonna push it to the top of the pile now. In any case, I think something like the contractualist / game theory approach must be right.
But one question/thought. A key part of morality is its phenomenology. There is a strong emotional element, and indeed you write that "We have moral intuitions **and emotions** that help us play the game of morals well with others in order to go through the game of life seamlessly" (my emphasis). Why? As you know, there are other social arrangements (e.g. institutions) that are also social contracts but don't have the same phenomenology as morality. Explaining this seems to me to be a key part of the story.
I sketched my own answer in this short comment on Pinsof.
Unfortunately I am not a very articulate writer, but I can say that this was incredible and I am excited for the following posts
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Hi Lionel. I've had Binmore's Natural Justice on my reading list for a long time, I'm gonna push it to the top of the pile now. In any case, I think something like the contractualist / game theory approach must be right.
But one question/thought. A key part of morality is its phenomenology. There is a strong emotional element, and indeed you write that "We have moral intuitions **and emotions** that help us play the game of morals well with others in order to go through the game of life seamlessly" (my emphasis). Why? As you know, there are other social arrangements (e.g. institutions) that are also social contracts but don't have the same phenomenology as morality. Explaining this seems to me to be a key part of the story.
I sketched my own answer in this short comment on Pinsof.
https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/utilitarianism-is-bullshit/comment/164507278