Objectivism Q&A with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Can Values Be Objective if They Depend on Human Valuation?
We got a question about can values be objective if they depend on human valuations? And the questioner also presented us with an argument that they wanted us to ment on, and i think we're going to put that up on the screen. So this, this argument goes, i if there's, if there is no sentient life in the universe, then there is no value either. It follows that all value ultimately originates from sentient beings and their perspectives on reality. Since value is necessarily perspective dependent from the viewpoint of sentient beings, it is thus impossible for value to be objective. If objective value doesn't exist, then it is necessarily the case that objective morality cannot exist either. Mor
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