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'One more, vital, example: ethics. Philosophers enjoy arguing about whether ethics (those mind-spinningly complex phenomena) are actually objective or subjective.'

Ethics was my introduction to philosophy when I was a teenager; and I was highly influenced, for example, by Singers book 'practical ethics' in particular. Getting older, I indeed began to question the objectivity of ethics (and Singers justification of it in particular). But even if I am now undecided whether ethics is an objective or subjective philosophical endevour, I still live my life according to certain ethical guidelines that I find good, plausible, reasonable.

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John's avatar

Wow! Really a lot of food for thought. Good essay. The footnotes were hard to see in the text, but I backtracked and found them. There must be a way of linking them.

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