Ariadne's Thread on Ethical Relativism
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Relativism: For and Against

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Let's be careful. We have to make a distinction between two different sets of questions:
  • Questions about the origins and causes of people's moral views.
  • Questions about the correctness binding nature of different moral views.

You may be right that people have different experiences that lead them to accept different moral principles and make different moral judgments. But how does that bear on questions about correctness or whether a principle is binding?

For example: Hitler probably had experiences that led him to hold certain moral principles; but it doesn't follow that his principles are as correct or as binding as, say, Ghandi's.


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