tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post115998103111330732..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Ideality and Relativity in AestheticsRichard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1160010376477922992006-10-04T21:06:00.000-04:002006-10-04T21:06:00.000-04:00Hmmm. To find the Isle of Objective Relativism, d...Hmmm. To find the Isle of Objective Relativism, do I first need to travel to the Isle of Objective Ideality?<BR/><BR/>I agree that a relativist has have a sense of progress, like a sense of knowing which way is uphill. Yet, this procedure could take her to any of a multitude of mountaintops. How does she usefully establish an ideal mountaintop if altitude is subjective?<BR/><BR/>I suppose that if she could ascend each mountaintop multiple times, in every possible permutation, she might gain a sense of which one is highest. However, it's not clear that this leads to an ideal agent. If you have to listen to the complete works of Beethoven and Britney Spears numerous times in all possible permutions, you might be pretty sick of them both before you get an answer (hardly ideal)! (If we were considering moral relativism, we would be in an even more difficult position.)Doctor Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182745193512661770noreply@blogger.com