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Lionel Page
@lionelpage.bsky.social

Director of UQ Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences. Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association. Book: ‘Optimally Irrational’, Substack: https://www.optimallyirrational.com/

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Is morality relative to each society? This view is common in the public but unpopular among philosophers.
We can see morality as grounded in a society’s social contract--and thus relative--without the usual “anything goes” associated with "relativism".
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/is-moralit...
Is morality relative?
And if so to what extent
www.optimallyirrational.com

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Is morality relative? • And if so to what extent
Is morality relative?
And if so to what extent
www.optimallyirrational.com

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A key objection to ‘morality as a convention’ (rather than absolute truth) is that ‘anything goes’.

@lionelpage.bsky.social deftly counters this argument and shows why its method is flawed, and proposes respect for a social contract as a more robust explanation:

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Very much this energy : m.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUb...