The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoAn ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square191fedilinkarrow-up1975arrow-down18
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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·10 hours 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-up1·1 hour agoYou should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 hours 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-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoYou arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-25 hours agoI mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch: This sentence is false.
minus-squareDragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours 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.
Kind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
You arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
I mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch:
This sentence is false.
Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.