Superultramodern Ethical / Aesthetical Relativism (SEAR)
According to Superultramodern Ethical/Aesthetical Relativism
(SEAR) nothing is absolutely good or bad (or beautiful or ugly),
but, as Shakespeare said, thinking makes it so. The novelty in
SEAR is its foundations. A thinks C (say an idea) is good while
B thinks C is bad. Now it seems that there can be no logical or
conceptual criteria to determine if A, for example, is right or
wrong. The law of syllogism ( if p implies q and q implies r
then p implies r ), for example, is logically true in the sense
that one ( at least I ) has to think ( apart from the principle
of universal doubt ) that it is true and if someone thinks it to
be false then it is his/her inability to see the truth in the
law of syllogism or, more importantly, to understand what the
law of syllogism states or the concepts it involves. So the
principles like the law of syllogism are supposed to be eternal
as they cannot be otherwise. They have to be the way they are
forever, regardless of individual minds. However, this does not
apply to ethical judgments, as one can reasonably think
otherwise. The concepts good and bad allow far more flexibility,
and if one, for example, thinks that it is good to hurt others
for one's own pleasure, this thinking involves no conceptual
contradiction, as that is the way that person defines the
concept of goodness. And how can there be any
logical/conceptual/reasonable restriction on how one defines
goodness or badness ? In case of the law of syllogism once we
are clear about the terms p, q, r, and implication, the truth
cannot logically/conceptually/ reasonably be denied. Ethical
concepts are thus vague concepts. Concepts like implication, on
the other hand, are concrete or clear. ( It is a different thing
that if we mean to call dog, for example, as implication then it
is a mere attaching of the label 'implication' to the concept of
dog as 'dog' is also nothing but a label attached to some
concept. )
In this particular world majority of people more or less agree
on ethical definitions because their minds are constructed that
way ( i.e. Programs are created to generate appropriate states
of consciousness.) In the NSTP ( Non - Spatial Thinking Process
) theoretical terms if the non - spatial universal program is
changed people would disagree or think different way/s.
SEAR is a component of Superultramodern Science (SS).