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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But "constructing better morals" is by itself a non-relativist statement. How can you say there are "better morals" when you follow moral relativism, which states that there is no universal set of moral principles? In other words, that morals are not comparable with each-other?

It's not the same thing as accepting that different cultures have different set of morals, but whether some things are simply more moral than others, or not. For example, saying that slavery is always bad, and should never be allowed, is an absolutist moral statement.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I think they worded this poorly. I believe their argument was more that someone can believe that morals are constructs, and relative, but you can also believe that you should try and move people to construct morals based on your own.