I don’t agree with the parent of your post, but I don’t think your example responsive. He is using the struggle between A and B to argue that both are worthless. Your rephrasing relies on the fact that B is already known to be worthless. In short, the lack of parallelism means your criticism of the structure of his argument is misplaced.
Even if you don’t know anything about A and B, the fact there is struggle doesn’t clearly mean there isn’t one that’s clearly right. This debate has been hashed out a lot in the literature on moral realism, and I think most people ultimately find the naive argument from disagreement unconvincing.
I any case, I think continental philosophy is already known to be worthless.
I don’t agree with the parent of your post, but I don’t think your example responsive. He is using the struggle between A and B to argue that both are worthless. Your rephrasing relies on the fact that B is already known to be worthless. In short, the lack of parallelism means your criticism of the structure of his argument is misplaced.
Jack is probably right on the merits.
Even if you don’t know anything about A and B, the fact there is struggle doesn’t clearly mean there isn’t one that’s clearly right. This debate has been hashed out a lot in the literature on moral realism, and I think most people ultimately find the naive argument from disagreement unconvincing.
I any case, I think continental philosophy is already known to be worthless.