The Ethics of Ambiguity
Charlotte Moore freely subjects de Beauvoir’s ethics to a discerning scrutiny.
Well, in my view, it’s objective only to the extent that, in taking a leap of faith to No God, you assume that there is no getting around the fact that over and over and over again, in interacting with others socially, politically and economically, we are often confronted with the need to choose behaviors that come into conflict with others. So, the choice must be made. You must choose one value over another. But that is a very different approach to objective morality than the one I focus in on: the belief that, in being confronted with the choice, one can in fact choose good over evil in a world where there is no transcending font able, on the other side, to reduce our choices down to one or another Judgment Day.
And the values we are obligated to create given the manner in which freedom is construed to be an objective component of the human condition are [for me] no less rooted existentially in dasein.
And even here assuming in turn free will.
Here, of course, it all comes down to how far you take this “ethical calculus”. Every context is embedded in facts that can be shared. Mary can have her own perfectly rational assessment of her unwanted pregnancy. She can provide any number of sound reasons why, given her situation and frame of mind, it is reasonable to choose abortion. And those on the other side can do the same in regard to the fate of the unborn. In other words, since it is an individual subject who thinks and feels as they do given their own assessment of their life, there’s no getting around subjectivism in that sense.
As for this though:
“Ethical subjectivism or moral non-objectivism is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. … The truth or falsity of such propositions is ineliminably dependent on the (actual or hypothetical) attitudes of people.” wiki
You tell me. Given a particular situation for example.
However, we would still need a context in which to explore these distinctions as I do. Though definitely intersubjective. After all, if you were alone, completely isolated and apart from all other subjects, what would be the point of ethics? Other than in relationship to any particular God you believed in.