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Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn

Philosophy For Our Times

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Moral Relativism Is the Problem We Are Getting Today

Moral relativism is the problem we are getting today. Local moral absolutism is being combined with global relativism. One of the things which made me infinitely sad is you remember when Taliban won over in Afghanistan, they immediately made a pact with China. But you do what you want with Uighur's with Muslims there. So nonetheless, I'm here more open to what you were saying and would say like this, it's very human, it's naive. Nobody would expect this maybe from me but I will just tell you a fact... You remember General Yoruzelski, his coup d'etat in 1980, blah blah? Then they had at the end negotiations

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