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Ethics
Okay, I'm going to take a different approach with ethics, largely because it is now considered a sort of dead duck. While post-modernists like Jameson, Lyotard and Derrida revel in morality's new-found freedom from questions of legitimacy, and relativists like Macintyre and Collingwood rail against any attempts to establish a universal basis for our ethical injunctions, I will skirt a line between the two: for though it has thrown off the yoke of bi-polarity, and has hitherto broadened out from incontestable right and wrong to factor in free-will, it must still be possible to frame the ethics qua human beings, if not necessarily in terms of fixed rules. There is a strong current of Aristotle here, though I would obviously need to dismantle his metaphysical biology. The primary question, so conceived, is: how should I live my life? Is there a rational (if not objective, immutable and binding) way of answering this question?

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