This
may conflict with something we said before about fundamental agreement
on ethical principles.
We said that the problem of ethical relativism disappeared if there
was no fundamental disagreement. But is that really true?
Suppose there is fundamental agreement on ethical principles, but
still no objective basis for the principles? We can still imagine
someone putting forward a different set of moral principles. And we
can still imagine asking whether there is a way to prove one and
only one set of principles to be true or binding. Wouldn't that bring
out our basic problem in spite of the fact that there happens to be
fundamental agreement on principles?
It seems to me that the fact of fundamental agreement eliminates
conflict here and now but doesn't resolve the basic philosophical
problem.