The Foundations of Morality

ATS: How is it possible for something to be right and wrong in this universe or good and bad? And then move from there into what is the relationship between the claims we make about good and evil and right and wrong. That's a good question and a very large question, one that I've grappled with on and off for most of my philosophical career. ATS: There are some claims which you can say are truths, that they're things that strike us as self-evident. But an example would be that inflicting agony for no real purpose, let's say inflicting agony because it brings you some kind of moderate enjoyment, mild enjoyment, that that's wrong.