Val:
No. I am not saying that normative questions are subjective. I am saying that the culteral relativist simply cannot ask normative statements.
Culteral relativists can only answer normative and ethical questions within the structure of the culture. Normative and Ethical questions do not have objective answers - they can only answer them relative to the culture.
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TTF
But that is my point.
I don't see how normative and Ethical questions can have objective answers.
To accept that Ethic values are not relative brings us to the question:
why is an ethic value objective? And the answer must be: because a god said so, or because of the Pure Ideas from Plato.
If you don't accept Plato's theory of Forms, and is you don't accept the notion of God, how can you establish the foundations of an absolute moral?
val wrote:TTF
But that is my point.
I don't see how normative and Ethical questions can have objective answers.
To accept that Ethic values are not relative brings us to the question:
why is an ethic value objective? And the answer must be: because a god said so, or because of the Pure Ideas from Plato.
If you don't accept Plato's theory of Forms, and is you don't accept the notion of God, how can you establish the foundations of an absolute moral?
One can objectively answer that the answer to the ethical question "Is it justifiable to kill in self defence?" is such and such in this or that culture.
