RE: Any Moral Relativists in the House?
May 24, 2021 at 7:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2021 at 7:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 24, 2021 at 5:22 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: So if you want to say morality is a fairy tale, fine. Maybe a "useful fiction" if you're feeling charitable. But that doesn't making it true relative to anything. That's why I think relativism is incoherent. That's what it does.In cultural relativism, as you noted before, the truth assertion of any moral proposition is a fact of a given society - not a fairytale, or fiction, even.
Specifically and explicitly true of a system held by a culture. You think there's more or some other metric, but, ofc, that doesn't make relativism incoherent, merely wrong in your view and by repeated insistence of your view. That there's something else, something more, and cultures get that other thing wrong.
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