tinyjo: (relaxing)
Emptied of expectation. Relax. ([personal profile] tinyjo) wrote2010-06-04 10:58 am
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"Although it is generally true that people say what they mean and mean what they say"


Are you allowed to put a sweeping general statement like that in the middle of a paper on medical ethics?! I keep being derailed from my reading by stuff like this. There's also

The common morality contains moral norms that bind all persons in all places; no norms are more basic in the moral life … [it] comprises all and only those norms that all morally serious persons accept as authoritative.


I can't decide whether this is so restrictive as to encompass nothing or merely a circular definition which basically boils down to norms that I and people who agree with me (and are therefore morally serious) accept. Thoughts?

[identity profile] tinyjo.livejournal.com 2010-06-04 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Daily Dinosaur Comics. How I wish I could cite thee in my essay.