Side comments on Euthyphro

[Rumraket (Mikkel R.)]

@structureoftruth

We understand that our moral intuitions point to the existence of an objective standard of morality because that is part of the very meaning of those moral intuitions. In much the same was as our subjective perceptions of the external world (though sight, sound, touch, etc) naturally lead us to believe in the objective existence of that external world, our moral intuitions naturally point to an objective standard.

I don’t agree with this analogy. It seems to me it fails in the crucial aspect that is the point of contention. Are the things we sense with our moral intuitions external to ourselves?

After all my experience of an external world takes the form of an external world. I am experiencing it as external to and independent from myself. When I experience seeing a building, it appears to me as an object separate and distinct from myself. Part of the external world I live in. But my experiences of moral intuitions are within me. I am experiencing my own emotions.