If we construct our ethical reality and the way we construct it varies across cultures and times, then what is to keep us from falling into paralysing relativism where anything goes or reacting radically by positing a universal moral law? Freelance writer and philosopher Daniel Callcut explores this question in his recent article for Aeon. Enjoy!
“If everyday language can sometimes feel oppressive, it’s perhaps because it is inescapably descriptive and evaluative: it tells you not just how things are, but how they should be.”
Daniel Callcut
Link to the article: Wrestling with Relativism
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