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AMA | May 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Moral Relativivism

i like to talk about constructivism as opposed to relativism, because moral relativism posits that a morality is inheres in a community or a set of individuals. But i didn't say any of those words when i just described humean constructivism. I construct a moral theory. And i think my moral theory is the right one for me. It's the one i constructed. But i'm definitely going to use it to judge other people's behavior,. That's one of the things you do with a good moral theory. The crucial thing, like i said in your in the i the end of the question is, can you be justified in doing that? Most people still aremoral

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