I was not expecting a warm reception from my last few posts.
Yes, I came back on because I was wondering what the Dunces were going to do. jar raises an insignificant point about the writing of the dialogues. Who cares?
Anyway, you have a respectable inquiry.
Morality is knowledge.
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For you have agreed that those who go wrong in their choice of pleasures and pains-which is to say, of good and bad things-go wrong from lack of knowledge, and not merely of knowledge, but, as you have already further conceded, of measurement. -Socrates
The man that has the knowledge cannot do wrong. For the man that has the knowledge of pleasure and pain, good and bad will be able to measure the good and the bad of an action. This man will not succumb to the illusion of immediate gratification because he can measure the good from the bad wholly.
There cannot be more than one truth. If a culture believes good of the practice of suttee and another doesn't, it cannot be both right to some and wrong to others. Knowledge lends a discerning eye to man. Relativism destroys tolerance and the meaning thereof. Relativism is bullshit.
Ignatius
Edited by ethics, : No reason given.