Critique of the Revised Version of the CDA
- Validity
- This version is valid.
- Premise 1
- Premise 1 is acceptable.
- Premise 2
- Premise 2 is most objectionable. For one thing, it begs the question:
it presumes relativism. More critique later.
- Premise 3
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Premise 3 is also wrong. One moral code
could be silent on the
rightness or wrongness, say, of attending religious services while
another claimed it to be right. The codes
would differ, but not in the way presumed in 3.
- Premise 4
- Premise 4 may seem plausible, but compare: If
someone is tall relative
to one society (or group of people), but short relative to another, then
there is no objective truth in height. Seems false!
Richard Lee,
rlee@comp.uark.edu,
last modified: 24 February 1999