Timeless truths
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Whether any moral truth holds across every culture is the live argument behind the phrase timeless truth
Mortality is the one item on the list of human universals that no culture has argued away
A truth that cannot be stated without its century's vocabulary may be a fashion rather than an eternal
The is-ought gap warns that no timeless description of human nature yields a single rule by itself
Popper argued that history has no iron laws to discover and only trends that can be bucked
Mathematical statements are the easiest candidates for timeless truth because they need no culture to be true
Scientific laws are timeless in form and revisable in content which is a strange pair to defend together
Singer's expanding circle claims moral progress is real and that some moral truths were discovered late
Moral relativism does not deny that values matter: it denies that one set of them outlives its culture
Every generation believes its crisis is unprecedented and that belief is the oldest thing about it
The claim that human nature never changes has survived every attempt to date it to one society
Plato's forms made timelessness a property of another world because this one keeps changing
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