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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Rants and Debate => Topic started by: MuggedByReality on December 06, 2010, 01:27:20 pm
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Watch from 7.45 onwards to hear an evisceration of the ideology that propounds that all cultures and belief systems are morally equivalent
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1594945712799371957#
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I'd like to see someone actually try to defend Moral Relativism - I've had to study it in both 1/2 and University Philosophy, and neither provided adequate support for its position...
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I'd like to see someone actually try to defend Moral Relativism - I've had to study it in both 1/2 and University Philosophy, and neither provided adequate support for its position...
It's often "defended" not by means of extolling its virtues, but by people taking pot-shots at its opponents, calling them "racist", "right-wing", "culturally imperialist", etc. Who were its proponents when you studied it formally?
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I'd like to see someone actually try to defend Moral Relativism - I've had to study it in both 1/2 and University Philosophy, and neither provided adequate support for its position...
It's often "defended" not by means of exalting its virtues, but by people taking pot-shots at its opponents, calling them "racist", "right-wing", "culturally imperialist", etc. Who were its proponents when you studied it formally?
Nobody really - it was always one of those positions that was just "there".