I, too, propose that ethics is NOT subjective. I just propose that we have not found the truth behind it, yet.
And I don’t like when people interchange ethics and morality. They’re different things. I know what they are, but don’t interchange them!! Please!!
And I hate philosophers (not you though, Bruno!! ) that create massive books and large amounts of works just to say that “it’s all subjective”. Seriously, one person already told us that, the idea is with us, and it wasn’t your idea. It stops being inspiring after the first twenty thousand billion philosophers say it.
That being said, I just did a report where one section consisted of “ethics”. I remember comparing Kant and Aristotle and their two definitions of “ethics”. Kant believed in the “universal maxim” while Aristotle believed in the “golden mean”.
Kant’s universal maxim is just that - basically, he thought that if everyone could follow a set of guidelines, then if the world would still be fine, the set of guidelines must be ethical. For example, not killing would be ethical. Killing would not be.
Aristotle believed that the “golden mean” could be found to explain every ethical idea. For example, to choose what to do on the wide spectrum of possibilities where one side holds hatred and the other side holds lust, there would lie somewhere in the middle “love”.
Of course, both definitions are flawed in one way or another, but if these philosophers were trying to find some kind of truth, then perhaps there was one, and they couldn’t explain it yet.
Now, to go on with this train of thought, let us (or me, because you’re not discussing this as I type) discuss dream issues. According to Kant, anything and everything in a dream that you do must be considered ethical, because if everyone did whatnot in their dreams, the world would still be fine when they awoke. I’m not entirely sure about Aristotle’s beliefs on this matter… It’s not quite so straight-forward to me…
But I find it an interesting topic and will keep you guys posted if I think of anythign else or decide to banter.