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Comment author: lessdazed 16 November 2011 05:03:28PM 0 points [-]

I don't think they need to disagree with each other, only with outsiders.

Comment author: thomblake 16 November 2011 05:06:14PM 0 points [-]

So the premise, then, is that the institution of Ethics would come tumbling down if it were not the case that ethicists seemed to have special knowledge that the rest of the populace did not?

if so, I think it again applies equally well to any academic discipline, and is false.

Or am I still missing something?

Comment author: lessdazed 16 November 2011 05:09:54PM 1 point [-]

So the premise, then, is that the institution of Ethics would come tumbling down if it were not the case that ethicists seemed to have special knowledge that the rest of the populace did not?

Yes.

applies equally well to any academic discipline

Other academic disciplines are tested against reality because they make "is" statements. Philosophy is in a middle ground, I suppose.

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