Notes

Not so long ago, I had a few more thoughts about my Masters thesis. I decided to look into one of the objections raised by the external reviewer: The thesis seemed to depend on the claim that society and its practices could be specified independently of a constitutive reliance on moral terms. As such, s/he said that this claim needed to be defended, or at least more than it was in the thesis. I had not had any thoughts at all about whether society had a constitutive reliance on moral terms. Nor I did not see how it posed a problem for my arguments one way or the other either. My idea for an ethical theory revolved around a putative dependency of ethics on social functioning. How was this weakened if society was constitutively dependent on moral terms? If anything, it seemed to strengthen it if the connection between morals and society were really that strong. I decided to email my supervisor to ask him this question. He replied saying that much of the subject matter was now too far in