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Relativism? Yes I would say so. There are a lot of realists who spend some amount of their time arguing with other realists who believe contradictory things.
by alphazard 3y ago
Relativism? Yes I would say so.
There are a lot of realists who spend some amount of their time arguing with other realists who believe contradictory things. Or doing mental gymnastics to convince themselves that their beliefs about morality are somehow objectively true, and other people's are objectively false.
Moral relativists waste less time doing this. Your own percept of morality, better and worse, good and bad, is as real/true as any other percept. Morality isn't any more or less than that.
- downboots 3y agoSo iiutc, it has utility if you value not having to resolve contradictions over being correct in a realist sense?
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoIt's recognition of the structure of judgement: if judgement is correct relative to its reference frame, then it's a relative judgement. Example: person A stealing from person B is good for person A and bad for person B - these two judgements specify their reference frames and their relative structure is fairly obvious.