The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 4 days agoAn ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAn ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 4 days agomessage-square199fedilink
minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoAbsolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
minus-squareTarqon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoYou should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
minus-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoYou arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
minus-squaredeltapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoYou 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?
minus-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 days agoWhat 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
minus-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoIll take yours as “I dont get it”
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 days agoI mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch: This sentence is false.
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoKind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
minus-squareDragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoObviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.
Absolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
You should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
You arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
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?
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
I’ll take that as a ‘no’
Ill take yours as “I dont get it”
I mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch:
This sentence is false.
Kind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.