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[from 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' by Thomas Nagel, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism ]

Full Idea

One would have to be very morally lazy to be unconcerned with the possibility that the prevailing morality of one's culture had something fundamentally wrong with it.

Gist of Idea

You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture

Source

Thomas Nagel (MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment [1988], 203)

Book Reference

Nagel,Thomas: 'Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994' [OUP 1999], p.203