Objective Moral Facts

Objective Moral Facts

Constructivists , realists and relativists have debated on the issues of independence or variability of moral facts . Moral realists claim that moral truths and facts are objective . Moral facts are said to be objective because their nature and existence is independent of attitudes , theories and beliefs about them . A moral statement , if it is true , is independent of anyone 's thoughts about such a statement . The moral statement is true in the context of an objective moral fact . In for the theory of moral realism to hold , two conditions or

br requirements must be met . The first condition is that the basic concepts of what is right and good must have certain properties . The moral judgments involved must represent the moral facts in which the properties are present . The second condition should consist of a world where such moral properties are substantial and therefore , it should be a world where these facts exist (Dreier 2006

Moral realists have always believed in the existence of moral facts . An action is said to be morally right or wrong when an objective fact exists for that particular which is right or wrong . A specific action is right or wrong even when no one believes the action is right or wrong . In this sense , moral facts do not depend on moral claims . The existence of independent moral facts provides objective truths concerning moral matters . Consequently , since moral facts are objective , meaningful and significant moral discussions are allowed in which a moral statement...