How Shall We Judge?: Moral Absolutism vs. Relativism - Part2

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rja8EcMmPw
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq7sG2uk-J0
Total time: 21:24

Part Two of a presentation I gave in 2005 for my final project in a philosophy class, in which I attempt to prove moral absolutism and refute moral relativism.

None of the arguments are original; most of them are from C.S. Lewis and Peter Kreeft.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• humanities
• philosophy
• ethics
• morality
• moral
• absolutism
• relativism
• c.s.
• lewis
• kreeft
• psychology
• human
• nature
• anthropology

[partilov1]

don't you contradict yourself in speaking of moral intuition and that you have beaten nature by defying it

so then one can say moral intuition is much like instinct or biologically determined and one can trump that nature much like you trumped nature

then associate something good feeling in substitution for moral intuition when trumped

[TheScholarBookWorm]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Could you state your objection more clearly?

[yarglesbo]

intriguing... but turning down the music or putting the text of your essay in the description would help me follow along.

[VoiceOfModeration]

lol, relativism. what a joke

[partilov1]

its not an instinct to go to the hospital because evolution doesn't work as fast as our technological and medical development

however, what is your evidence that if the ones who don't go to the hospital and the ones who do do, natural selection won't take place to make it a desire?

our desires are not always conflicting if one is full, one won't have the conflict of either eating or having sex, presuming one wants sex and food.

evolution also gave us rational inquiry to sort desires

[partilov1]

the music makes it hard to follow along

[plk11]

great videos