Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith
The Thomistic Institute
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Moral Relativism Doesn't Lead to Tolerance
Tolerance seems valuable because it establishes certain goods, such as living at peace with others and better understanding those with whom one disagrees. But these goods seem to be functioning as if they were part of some universal objective morality. So why suppose that relativism is going to give us tolerance? It could get you out of it a sort of nealism, right? That it's, you know, doesn't really matter, just about power,. And yet, there are no objective moral norms; so it doesn't all have to lead to tolerance.
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