In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Objectivity, rationality and personal grounds of being

| July 19, 2008

One of the most interesting problems with any system of ethics is the twinned questions of a) what is the system grounded in and b) why should I, as an individual, care? I’m sure that most people are familiar with the old, probably apocryphal, story of a philosophy exam with one question on it – [...]