My most recent epiphany is thus:
We can trace one of the fundamental screw ups in philosophy back to Plato (and yes, I do enjoy that). Plato's serach for an 'objective' foundation for Socratic ethics has left us a nightmare of a legacy. I do not consider myself an ethical relativist yet I have decided that the absolute relativity of ethics is precisely that which makes ethics objective. We do not need Plato's perfect objective forms to bring us back from the brink of barbarism. What we need is cultural and intellectual globalization.
I am now wondering what it is I still need the transcendent for?
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