Thursday, June 15, 2006

On 'The War On Relativism'

Apparently, war has been declared on relativism.

The current martial strategy is to impose ‘fact’ on morality, promoting it to role akin to that it plays in science.

Given the analogy of the war on terrorism, perhaps it is time to commence an insurgency …

An apparent issue is methodological – by what method does one impose fact on morality? Assumedly, the vanguard what to construct a schema of ‘absolute’ ethical norms which might form the basis of their ‘secular morality’ but the choice of method is not so simple …

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