Recently a philosopher replied: "Many slaveholders didn't think that what they

Recently a philosopher replied: "Many slaveholders didn't think that what they

Recently a philosopher replied: "Many slaveholders didn't think that what they were doing was morally wrong, but it was." The implication is that the slaveholders had a merely "subjective", local standard of conduct, but the philosopher has an "objective", universal one that allows her to see the limits of the slaveholder's conscience. How does one achieve this objective standard and how can one test it to see if it isn't only a different form of subjectivism?

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