Argunet Debates

Morality would be unstable or monistic, but could not produce the real conflicts between reasons we know from our moral practice.

1. If morality were a system of absolute principles, there could not be two conflicting principles, but one principle would have to be abandoned as non-moral principle.
2. For any system of absolute moral principles there are situations in which these principles conflict.
3. If morality were a system of absolute principles it would not be stable, but would be reduced to one principle.
4. Morality cannot be based upon one absolute principle.
5. Morality cannot be a system of absolute principles.