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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.p45p97
- isbn: 9781783740321
- eisbn: 9782821876101
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J. David Velleman, « VI. Sociality and Solitude », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.p45p97
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The moral universe of relativism is a scary place. Bad enough that there are physical black holes; relativism raises the specter of moral black holes as well, places where the laws of morality collapse. The fear is not just that there can be ways of life in which this or that unsavory practice turns out to be morally permissible; it’s that there can be ways of life that draw no distinctions remotely like our distinction between right and wrong, so that nothing is either permissible or impermi...