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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
...has been shown to be flawed, but I no longer fully remember how the rebuttals worked. Something along the lines of how Kant went in a roundabout way to basically confirm and reinforce Christian morality; more prosaically, Kant tried very hard to show it was possible to not just think of absolute morality but also to behave as though it does, in fact, exist. If I recall correctly, he produced the thesis in response to British empricism, which broadly pushed the view that if a concept cannot be experienced physically, then it cannot really be known.
Suffice to say that Western moral philosophy has long since moved on. Still, for anyone interested in learning how epistemology can be applied to the study of morality, Immanuel Kant's categorical imperatives are as good a place as any to start.
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I was being facetious, I find any attempt at an establishment of "one" method of assessing, determining or measuring ethics and morality about as useful as an "infinite rulebook" -- but each and everyone one of them (well, most of them..) in conjunction are useful in seeing how humans approach their realities and interact with one another .. social contract, ho!