The Picard Maneuvercake to People [email protected] • 3 months agoAn ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025lemmy.worldimagemessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up11.02K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoAbsolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoObviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-23 months agoI mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch: This sentence is false.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoYou arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-23 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 months agoYou should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI first encountered it in Hofstadter’s incredible book.
Absolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.
Kind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
I mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch:
This sentence is false.
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”
You should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
I first encountered it in Hofstadter’s incredible book.