No, that’s what some philosophers do. You can’t just expel the likes of Michael Oakeshott or Nietzsche from philosophy. Even Rawls claimed at times to be making a political, rather than ethical, argument. The notion that ethics have to be “built from scratch” would be highly controversial in most philosophy departments I’m aware of.
No, that’s what some philosophers do. You can’t just expel the likes of Michael Oakeshott or Nietzsche from philosophy. Even Rawls claimed at times to be making a political, rather than ethical, argument. The notion that ethics have to be “built from scratch” would be highly controversial in most philosophy departments I’m aware of.