• WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Absolute moral rules can be discovered through logical deduction.

    Can you elaborate?

    I don’t believe that’s possible unless you take an axiomatic approach which would obviously be a moral relativist approach since we can just disagree on the choice of axioms themselves and prevent any deduction.

    How do you overcome the is-ought problem?

    • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      the regress problem states that all human knowledge is axiomatic. this is a big ol nothing-burger of a refutation, it is true for literally every single possible proposition.

      asking him to overcome this problem is so fucking far outside the scope of what you’re arguing about as to be ridiculous, you look silly.