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Salemicus comments on Open thread, Mar. 2 - Mar. 8, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Salemicus 03 March 2015 03:59:14PM 2 points [-]

That's what philosophers do

No, that's what some philosophers do. You can't just expel the likes of Michael Oakeshott or Nietzsche from philosophy. Even Rawls claimed at times to be making a political, rather than ethical, argument. The notion that ethics have to be "built from scratch" would be highly controversial in most philosophy departments I'm aware of.