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> very few people seem to understand that ethics is completely flawed because it is culturally biased and requires a great deal of contextual understanding Do
by jonathanstrange 7y ago
> very few people seem to understand that ethics is completely flawed because it is culturally biased and requires a great deal of contextual understanding
Do you have any particular ethics in mind? There is a vast range of positions, almost any position that can coherently be defended has been defended by one author or another. Some of them are by definition not culturally biased, for example many forms of utilitarianism, whereas others are strongly emphasizing that ethics requires a great deal of contextual understanding, for example Dancy's particularism.
I just wonder why you address these particular points, because it's more common to hear the opposite criticisms, that ethics is unable to provide any sensible guideline because there is too much persistent disagreement between ethicists (Mackie's error theory), or because contemporary ethics is too relativist.
- suifbwish 7y agoYour first sentence demonstrated my point about ethics being flawed. Do I have any particular ethics in mind? No. All ethics is flawed for exactly the reasons you are stating. It’s relative, contextual and has many meanings so is thus impossible to have any universal context.