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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[+] letsgo@lemm.ee -6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Absolute truth must exist, because if it doesn't, "there is no absolute truth" is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.

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[+] orcrist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.

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[–] Tarqon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You should look into Godel's incompleteness theorem.

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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago

I first encountered it in Hofstadter's incredible book.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago*

I mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can't stand a contradiction, watch:

This sentence is false.

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[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You don't agree that there are universal truths? Like the earth is spherical, the sun provides us light, and lemmy.ml is full of tankies?

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[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

What is light to one is dark for another. Whats pain for one is gain for another. Everything is relative and through the lens of your own perspective, experience, and bias

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'll take that as a 'no'

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[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ill take yours as "I dont get it"

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