Ariadne's Thread on Ethical Relativism
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The ethical relativist must admit that proof of the kind found in natural science or logic or mathematics is not available for moral principles.

But the possibility of developing a wide reflective equilibrium is an alternative that provides something that we might call moral knowledge or, at least, a justification for a set of principles.

It seems to me that this shows that if the relativist achieves wide reflective equilibrium, it follows that his or her moral principles are not arbitrary and that it is not true that "anything goes" as some people fear.


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