J. Budziszewski has an interesting piece in Mercatornet on Joe Biden's moral relativism.
Come on, man! The President as an ethical theorist
Joe Biden is a classic example of a moral relativist
Physicists tell us that time seems to freeze when we enter the event horizon around a black hole. Our current president in the United States has been frozen in the event horizon around the black hole of moral relativism for decades of conventional time. People think he has shifted to the left since becoming president. No, he hasn’t. He is right where he has always been.
The other party has its own difficulties with relativism. Mr. Biden, however, presents a particularly conspicuous and persistent case of what we might call the relativistic paradox: although relativists seem to say that there is no moral law, they insist on the moral rightness of their relativism.
Physicists tell us that time seems to freeze when we enter the event horizon around a black hole. Our current president in the United States has been frozen in the event horizon around the black hole of moral relativism for decades of conventional time. People think he has shifted to the left since becoming president. No, he hasn’t. He is right where he has always been.
The other party has its own difficulties with relativism. Mr. Biden, however, presents a particularly conspicuous and persistent case of what we might call the relativistic paradox: although relativists seem to say that there is no moral law, they insist on the moral rightness of their relativism.
It is well worth reading the whole piece as moral relativism will surely turn out to be be one of the four horsemen of our apocalypse.
4 comments:
Biden might well act like a moral relativist, but I doubt if he knows he is one. I doubt if he has many ideas at all, really, as it is more and more obvious to even his erstwhile supporters that the man is a senile liability.
Brace yourself for President Harris!
In my philosophy, this article makes total sense. But the human world is not full of logical thinkers, which, some say, is what makes it interesting. A lot of "feteful" illogical thinking is the outcome of adhering to ideology. Thus we have at present the absurd preoccupation with the concept that a man can be a woman so we can sacrifice logic on the alter of ideology and reenforce it with groupthink and coercion.
Four horsepeople of the Apocalypse, surely? Or perhaps one horseman, one horsewoman, one gay horseperson and one horseman who has self-identified as a horsewoman. Heaven forbid that the Apocalypse isn't woke.
Sam - Biden's handlers may be wondering if Harris would listen to her earpiece. Maybe they think she won't so they struggle on with old Joe.
Tammly - the weird aspect of men becoming women is that to a good approximation everyone must know it can't be so. Moral cowardice seems to be a significant issue.
DJ - and woke folk as are always searching for new boundaries to tackle, it could become even more complicated if we need to include riders who have self-identified as a horse.
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