The Trouble with Ethics

For the philosopher Pyrrho of Elis, our search for ethical certainty leads only to turbulence. Perhaps we’d be better off just giving up.

Will Buckingham
6 min readOct 9, 2021

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Ethics stirs us up. It gets us hot under the collar. It leads to conflict, turbulence and dispute. So wouldn’t we be better giving up on our search for ethical truth?

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Will Buckingham

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham