Posted by zeugma on March 13, 2005, at 15:27:16
In reply to Re: Zeugma, posted by alexandra_k on March 12, 2005, at 0:35:47
it sounds like you like Habermas as much as I like Armstrong :-)
I wonder if this has any bearing on the problem. But I think that a strong case can be made that moral terms, and hence judgements made using them, *are* holistic. But if they are holistic, then no two people mean the same thing when they use a moral term. Because no two people have the same relation to the culture in which they live, and it seems that this relation conditions how people use their moral terms and judgements that involve their use.
-z
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