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Author Topic:   Conventionalism is Dead - Society does NOT determine what is moral.
ReverendDG
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Message 63 of 113 (385915)
02-18-2007 5:45 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
02-16-2007 5:37 PM


These men believed that no truth existed and that everyone's opinion was correct. What you believe is "true for you", and what I believe is "true for me". Of course living in this manner completely shuts down the need for reason and knowledge. It breeds ignorant individuals who seek success, comfort, and money instead of truth.
no they believed there is no one truth when arguing about morality, if you can't pinpoint what morality is, muchless pointout were immoral and moral begins and ends, who is right?
It is called "Relativism", "Sophism", and "Conventionalism".
i think you need to go look up what these words mean, they hardly relate to each other in how we use them, you are making fine lines in how they relate to eachother
the way we use sophism has nothing to do with relativism, and heck the greeks didn't use it that way either, nor does conventionalism have much to do with ethics, it has mostly to do with manners and how we do things in polite society
Hopefully it is clear that Conventionalism is dead.
mostly i just see you making stuff up trying to redefine words you really don't understand. this is a pure strawman argument

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