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Relativist or not, if harm is objectively bad, is that sufficient for mind independent values?
I suspect that harm is objectively bad, but I'm unsure whether the negative value of what is harmful is mind independent, because while I cannot take seriously any claim that, relative to me or not, ...
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Is absolute moral relativism impossible?
Is my rationale correct here?:
If relativism is relative, relativism is a contradiction in itself, because you’re forced to believe what other people think is morally correct, is correct for them, and ...
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Is prescriptive moral relativism about universalism or absolutism?
Is prescriptive moral relativism about universalism or absolutism?
I just can't get this straight in my head. It seems that I can be an absolutist about an ethics that only applies to me. In which ...
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How does particularism fare with descriptive relativisim and its relation to moral skepticism?
As I understand it, descriptive relativism, acknowledging that there are very many disagreements about morality, ones which are often practically intractable, feeds into moral skepticism. As I'd ...
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What is the exact relationship between empathy and evil?
In common parlance, we label people who lack empathy as "evil". That is, people who commit acts of evil because they cannot put themselves in the shoes of their victims are seen as evil.
Why is this? ...
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Has/can moral relativism be refuted and what are its implications for a true and useful ethical calculus?
It seems that the existence of moral relativism undermines the entire enterprise of ethics, as it devolves into a bunch of, albeit very smart, people abstractly formulating what is ultimately just a ...
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Are ethics subjective? [closed]
I made a claim that ethics are completely subjective; that there is no one correct answer to a question in the form of:
Is insert activity or behaviour here ethical or not?
It was suggested that I ...
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