It's very easy to satisfy the requirement to be logically consistent in our beliefs.
It's very easy to satisfy the requirement to be logically consistent in our beliefs.
It's very easy to satisfy the requirement to be logically consistent in our beliefs.
Our unexamined views are often incoherent. Ima Student begins her philosophy paper by claiming that, since right and wrong are relative to culture, there's no duty that binds universally. She later says that everyone ought to respect the values of others. Ima is inconsistent: there are no duties that bind universally -- but yet the duty to respect the values of others binds universally.
It's difficult to have a consistent view on a complicated area like the foundations of ethics. Socrates showed this in the Platonic dialogues.