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#48 — What Is Moral Progress?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Destabilizing Effect of Postmodernism on Moral Philosophy

Many people in the west, I think largely as a result of what postmodernism has done to the humanities, but perhaps there are other reasons. Imagine that there's just no place to stand where you can contradict that opinion or dismiss it. And so what Derek Parfett thinks about morality doesn't matter any more than what Mueller Omar thinks and everyone is on all fours in their truth claims. That's been very destabilizing for many people in the West when it comes time to talk about the nature of human values.

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