PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethical Egoism, Glaucon, Psychological Egoism
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There is not as much moral disagreement as we think. It is really just a disagreement on the facts rather than a moral disagreement. Tolerance as an argument for moral relativism has its limit. The point of moral tolerance is having many views bloom, but these can stifle opinions. The fact that we can recognize a moral argument shows that we are not relativists. In pure relativism all moral arguments would fail in the same way. But we can form better or worse arguments. No matter how many ways you live in the world health is going to be good, and societies which produce health are good. You can believe in objective moral truth and not avoid context. Moral absolutism is on the other pole of moral relativism. You can believe in moral truth but you can also believe that they are context-dependent. If you can have moral values you are not a moral relativists.
