[extropy-chat] Re: moral relativism

[Dirk Bruere]

Claribel wrote:

>
>
> .
>
>>
>> Thank you ben, for helping to illuminate the difficulty with the way 
>> these terms are applied.  It appears muddled because these concepts 
>> of absolute and relative are a poor match to human affairs which 
>> involve subjective viewpoints and incomplete knowledge of the 
>> context.  Seeing the muddle is a step along the way to asking 
>> questions about what really underlies our evaluation of "right" and 
>> "wrong" across a range of situations and a range of moral agents from 
>> the simple to the more complex.
>
>
>
> I am also in favor of an 'in-between' view of relativism & absolutism. 
> Both of them, taken in literal form, contain inherent paradoxes.
>
Make it simpler still.
A few axioms plus 'might makes right'.
No need to 'prove' anything. No paradoxes

-- 
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org



-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 06/05/2005