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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 10, 2025
Ethics may be first, but I think that ontology may come before it. But, either way, that's different from saying it's the deepest of philosophical concerns. Mainly because ethics tends to be important to our relationships with other people, while epistemology and ontology are still of use to the solitary.
Comment by checkdateusercreated at 14/02/2025 at 12:52 UTC
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An isolated human would still locate a primitive goodness in food, water, and shelter as a matter of their corporeal predisposition(s). Social examples are used to discuss and observe ethical phenomena, but ethics is not confined to social environments. Humans don't act according to ethics merely for the sake of others—as is so easily observed in how contrary one's actions can be to another's ethical principles.