Look at our public debates from the perspective of a historian 150 years into the future: must we position ourselves within the fray of ideas already smelling of obsolescence? The future remembers us as a confused sideshow of epistemologically handicapped lead poisoning victims.
Is there an absolute upwards direction of morals, or is any previously abandoned state lower until you can re-derive it in a new way?
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I’d think it’s possible, but would be the exception as opposed to the rule.
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Do you think that there is a unidirectional moral arrow through historical time?
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