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Mark Frank says, My opinion has been shared by many people including some the world’s most famous philosophers at least since Hume. Were they all lying? A worldwide movement in multiple languages over hundred years all perpetrating this falsehood knowing full well it was wrong. Or I am special in knowing it was false while the others were just misled?
Isn't that entailed by BA's position? He knows what's right and what's wrong by perceiving the self-evident truth of the matter. He's not so arrogant as to claim that he's uniquely able to see these truths, so he has to take the position that we can all perceive the same truths. But since the vast majority of humanity has disagreed with him over the ages on one question or another, the implication is that he is nearly uniquely in having the strength of character to acknowledge those self-evident moral truths.
You know, the ones that just happen to match his cultural background.
I'm kind of enjoying this tour of BA's personality.
(I'd have added this to TSZ, but I think I'm getting caught in the spam filter again.)
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