PP213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Relativism, Special Pleading, Big L
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Dworkin"s perspective presupposes moral objectivism (there"s a right and wrong independently of our mind); there are inter-subjective values that exist for humani- ty. We have abortion in the first trimester which we deem to be legal, so once you understand the circumstances to which these occur, then you can criticize. There are many similarities between cultures, despite what we might think (ex. the value of life) In the case of dronenburg, dworkin thinks there"s only one interpretation of rights of freedom, and hercules (moral, philosophical judge) has a job to discover this in- terpretation. Pp213 week 10: conditions to which needs are met cant be arbitrary, therefore humans must have certain things in common; in order to live together, we must have rules that are structurally necessary. Because he has the one right answer thesis this isn"t going to help him very much, he needs a further argument that this defense against relativism is still problematic for hercules.
