RE: What Human Rights?
July 26, 2015 at 3:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2015 at 3:57 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 19, 2015 at 5:07 pm)Nestor Wrote:(July 19, 2015 at 4:35 pm)IATIA Wrote: Truth is a funny word. In some respects, even 'truth' can be subjective.You're saying that the claim "murder is immoral" is a statement that is both true and false. In other words, the word truth as you're using it is meaningless
The 'truth' is that murder is immoral, but that is in our society today.
There may be a society in which murder is not immoral and their 'truth' would be different than ours.
No, what he's saying is morality -- i.e., moral truths -- is both relative and subjective.
Is there such thing as an emotional truth?
Is there such thing as an æsthetic truth?
I think there are different kinds of truth. Some are universal (the inverse-square function of gravity, for instance) while others are private (I hate cauliflower).