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>> Ethics are a personal construct > Ethics are more universal Both of these statements will have philosophers up in arms ;D Whether morals (and transitively
by eqvinox 3y ago
>> Ethics are a personal construct
> Ethics are more universal
Both of these statements will have philosophers up in arms ;D
Whether morals (and transitively ethics) are universal or context dependent is an unanswered (and possibly undecidable) problem in philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism
- vr46 3y agoAgreed and I was well-aware when commenting, hence the flippancy! I guess I’m from the Simon Blackburn school where relativism is a threat to ethics…