I offer something even more loose knit & amorphous: the Society of butters (or Butters, if you prefer). An organisation of pure thought.
Based on the recognition that there is always a but.
But it follows a Yes – (not a No! or Rubbish!)
It does not follow that a butter believes in nothing, or is a total relativist.
Butters have to think hard about the domain of each ‘truth’; its limitations & consequences; when it is appropriate to act on, to believe, to act as if you believe it, when trying to do good (or just do your best).
And butters have to understand, when they place themselves in that domain, the rights & responsibilities which attach.
We have already rejected the ‘naturalistic’ theories which are commonly supposed to provide the only alternative to ‘absolutism’ in ethics.
Being sceptical has always been one of the best ways of protecting the future of the human race
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