Philosophy / Unit 7 Philosophy 0268 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Reformer's Dilemma
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The idea
The reformer's dilemma: if each culture's code defines right, then moral reformers—who challenge their own culture's code—are automatically wrong. That verdict indicts the theory.
In practice
On relativist terms, the abolitionist inside a slaveholding society errs, and moral progress is a contradiction: the code cannot improve by its own standard.
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