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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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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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