Hm, we need some new terminology, I guess. I hate abstract, but love maths. But it's not abstract in the sense that moral philosophy is abstract: it's incredibly precise. Perhaps what we're talking about is generalisation: the reason moral philosophy drives me up the wall is that it can only deal with generalities, and in my opinion generalities have nothing to do with actual moral decision-making. Maths doesn't deal with generalities because mathematical things follow laws in a way that psychomological and ethical things don't. So although it's abstract, there are no exceptions falling through the cracks.
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Date: 2007-06-14 11:58 am (UTC)But it's not abstract in the sense that moral philosophy is abstract: it's incredibly precise. Perhaps what we're talking about is generalisation: the reason moral philosophy drives me up the wall is that it can only deal with generalities, and in my opinion generalities have nothing to do with actual moral decision-making. Maths doesn't deal with generalities because mathematical things follow laws in a way that psychomological and ethical things don't. So although it's abstract, there are no exceptions falling through the cracks.