[Ir]responsibility

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

>>The view is deeply anti-democratic--it is  a left wing version, or
purports
to be a left wing version, of Leo Strauss's idea that there is a hidden
philosophical truth (there is no God, morality is arbitrary) that is too
dangerous to be set loose amongst the hoi poloi; only the enlightened elite
can safely know it. They hint at it, Strauss thought, in subtle silences in
their philosophical writings which are too hard fot the masses to get at,
while announcing to the world that relativism, etc. are bad and there is an
objective Truth.>>>

Since god is dead, morality is arbitrary.  and objective reality, peircean
convergence in the long run etc and any other iteration on those themes
won't cut it when indeterminacy reigns in moral debates because the freedom
to disagree trumps...unless you're in favor of morality by coercion rather
than agreement.

sextus empiricus