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One Major Argument Against Objectivism In Ethics Is That People Disagree Deeply About Right And Wrong

document One major argument against objectivism in ethics is that people disagree deeply about right and wrong House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ds to philosophers who cannot be accused of being ignorant or confused. If great thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham disagree about what we ought to do

alternative positions, have, for the first time in decades, put those

document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031910.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ds to philosophers who cannot be accused of being ignorant or confused. If great thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham disagree about what we ought to do, can there really be an objectively true answer to that question? Parfit’s response to this line of argument leads h...

He considers three leading theories about what we ought to do — one

document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031911.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…tract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the contemporary philosophers John Rawls and T.M. Scanlon, and one from Bentham’s utilitarianism — and argues that the Kantian and social-contract theories must be revised in order to be defensible. Then he argues that these revise...