refuting relativism

smoothmoniker · 05-15-2005, 12:23 AM

yes, they can allow for change, but not for improvement, not progress.

Which is where my mind just about blows up. Any moral schema that doesn't allow us to say that a culture moving away from human chattel and toward equality is making progress is a moral schema with fundamental flaws.

Troubleshooter · 05-15-2005, 01:17 AM

Fundamentally flawed or merely a very finely refined component of a larger methodology to be balanced against other parts?

05-15-2005, 12:23 AM	#1
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	yes, they can allow for change, but not for improvement, not progress. Which is where my mind just about blows up. Any moral schema that doesn't allow us to say that a culture moving away from human chattel and toward equality is making progress is a moral schema with fundamental flaws. __________________ to live and die in LA

05-15-2005, 01:17 AM	#2
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Fundamentally flawed or merely a very finely refined component of a larger methodology to be balanced against other parts? __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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