My understanding is that for the study of ethics, morality is absolute in that there is an absolute answer, even if we don't know what that answer is. If there

My understanding is that for the study of ethics, morality is absolute in that there is an absolute answer, even if we don't know what that answer is. If there were no absolute answer, then ethics as a field can't exist. But that seems a bit tautological to me. Moral absolutism stood on more solid ground at a time when the world was smaller and more religious.