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Moral Realitivism

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-13 20:40 ID:pHcxFqGp

Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognizing nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own ego.

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-17 13:08 ID:GrvvrBku

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You missed the point. Let's say there is another planet with humans like earth orbitting another planet of similiar development. The people there have a completely different culture, except for those elements of culture needed to reac hthe same level of development as us. This culture has the same mathematics, except maybe they use hexadecimal system instead of a decimal system, regardless they have still discoverred pi and the golden ratio. Perhaps they don't think the golden ratio is particularly important apart from it's use in the fibonacci sequence, but they know of it nonetheless. This is because such things are universal laws and apply everywhere.

Extend this to philosophy, for the second time whether something is universal or not does not mean how many people know about it, we are looking at whether it is rationally determinned from self-evident principles or whether it is empirically drawn. As was explained in >>14, the golden rule is rationally determinng from self-evident.

Do you understand? Also it's obvious you know fuck all about Kant's categorical imperative. You are liberal. Yes?

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