Moral Relativism
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The Importance of Moral Relativism
In the 1960s, I wouldn't say the fall of man began then but nevertheless things did change in a radical way. It seems to me that maybe the worst outcome for society that completely embraces moral relativism is just a reassertion of the idea that might is right. Do you agree with that or is there a worse outcome? There is this is a quite interesting point. In Foucault's writings and it's an argument which comes ultimately from Marx is that moral judgments have no intrinsic validity. They are a part of ideology whose reality has to be understood in terms of the power relations that they vindicate or endorse.
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