Is there a Line Between Morality and Practical Ethics?

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i tend to be sympathetic to the idea that there there are objective ethical truths i mean, there's various kinds of lines that get drawn here. And similarly, you shoul hof mentioned meta ethics. There was a kind of period in mid twentieth century moral philosophy where a lot of philosophers wanted to to do something, say something about ethics,. But they didn't really engage with the question how to live. They aned to separate the question of the nature of morality from practical questions about what what the ethical standards were. That sort of blurring of lines also applies to the kinds of questions about objectivity that you're raising. So on the one hand, there's a lot of moral

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