Why Do You Believe in a Conference of Doctrine?

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Bhut: What determines whether what he calls conference of doctrine, is reason or not, does not turn even on whether it is true. Talk us through how you would puzzle through a particular moral dilemma. Let's say there's a book store in your neighbourhood that you value and want to buy from but other people are buying them too. How would you solve the problem? We need to all wear mask in order to prevent our economy from being dround to a halt by the fact that everybodyis getting sick - bhut.

T. M. Scanlon, one of the world's preeminent moral philosophers, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University until his retirement. In his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other, Scanlon gives a liberal account of how to reason through what it takes to act justly in matters of morality as well as politics.

In this week’s conversation, T. M. Scanlon and Yascha Mounk discuss the true meaning of tolerance, how to decide whether an action is morally right or wrong, and why the question of free will isn’t as important as you might think.

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