On Moral Authorities

[Edwardo Piet]

Disagreement means there is no universal goal but not no absolute goal.

Semantics, I know. But I think the confusion is regarding the word "universal" being able to mean both "true in all universes" as in, absolute but also universal in the sense of "universal accord" or universal agreement.

So I think the problem is an equivocal one: a problem of ambiguity and equivocation.

I think "absolute" is a better word here. For its meaning is a little more specific.

There can be an absolute goal in some sense without there being a universal goal in all senses.