Kjell Eyvind Johansen: Two kinds of disagreement.
The article discusses moral relativism in light of some recent criticism. The kind of criticism I discuss of a special kind, and the main idea of the article is to argue that the kind of criticism I discuss is misplaced. Moral relativism has been criticized for not being able to explain normative speech, for reducing moral disagreement under agreement to disagreement of a non-moral kind, and for not being able explain how we can condemn morally destructive ideologies. It is argued that the main reason why this kind of criticism fails, is that the question of what we morally ought to do according to moral relativism is determined by two sources, our reasons and the moral standards we have acquired and accepted.