Posted by alexandra_k on March 13, 2005, at 23:44:22
In reply to holism » alexandra_k, posted by zeugma on March 13, 2005, at 15:27:16
> it sounds like you like Habermas
Who? (I am serious). No way. Did someone else beat me to it? No way. No fair :-(
> I wonder if this has any bearing on the problem. But I think that a strong case can be made that moral terms, and hence judgements made using them, *are* holistic. But if they are holistic, then no two people mean the same thing when they use a moral term. Because no two people have the same relation to the culture in which they live, and it seems that this relation conditions how people use their moral terms and judgements that involve their use.... But then it would seem that we couldn't even communicate about ethics :-(
Don't we need to go with 'standard meaning' or something like that...?
Aren't you begging the question towards moral relativism (to a culture)?
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