[MD] Harris and Steve

[Matt Kundert]

Ian said:
When DMB says he thinks Harris is wanting to get us beyond 
the cultural relativism, clearly he is ... but it is by 
recognizing the cultural basis of the acceptance of "facts" 
that we do so.

Matt:
This what I don't know about Harris because I don't know 
enough about him--whereas I don't know what "cultural 
relativism" is supposed to be (I still take it to be a 
shibboleth), I do understand Harris to be wanting to move 
past the conversation-stopper of "you can't tell me what 
to do because morals derive from the inside": classic 
interpretation of the is/ought conundrum.  However, I'm not 
sure Harris does recognize the "cultural basis of the 
acceptance of 'facts.'"  I'm not sure he's Wittgensteinian or 
Kuhnian in that sense.

I think it's the stance he ought to take, but from the little 
I've read it's unclear to me whether that is the stance he 
wants.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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