We live in a culture that has been heavily influenced by relativism, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth because everything depends on the individual or culture. One of the reactions against this has been to say that all of ethics is objective or absolute to the point where there is no meaningful difference between people or any individuality to ethics. So the question is to what degree ethics is objective and to what degree, if any, it’s not.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Ethics: Is Ethics Always Objective?
We live in a culture that has been heavily influenced by relativism, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth because everything depends on the individual or culture. One of the reactions against this has been to say that all of ethics is objective or absolute to the point where there is no meaningful difference between people or any individuality to ethics. So the question is to what degree ethics is objective and to what degree, if any, it’s not.
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