Introduction to Philosophy
Notes
This is not a substitute for coming to class - or for
reading
the
material
.
Richard Lee
Philosophy
2003
Copyright © 2007,
Richard Lee
Spring 2007
Pojman's Arguments Against
Conventionalism
If relativism is right, then criticism of those outside our culture is impossible. (IP3 493b)
If relativism is right, then moral reformers are always wrong. (IP3 493b)
"Conventionalist relativism seems to reduce to
subjectivism
. And subjectivism
leads
... to the demise of morality altogether." (IP3 494b)
[Each of these statements is merely a
premise
in a fuller argument.]
Richard Lee
,
rlee@uark.edu
, last modified: 19 September 2004
