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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are You Russ the Arbiter of Moral Principles?

constructivist view of morality is more like the laws of speeding or the rules of playing basketball that are constructed and there's no such thing as the perfect rules for playing basketball but there's nevertheless what we make up. So I don't know what kind of constructivist you are whether you think that moral principles correct moral principles are ultimately founded in each individual's attitudes or whether it's a group effort. Do you want to say anything about that? You might say well Russ isn't that kind of arrogant? Yeah you know why are you Russ the arbiter of what's right and wrong?" "I very roughly think that there is a job for moral philosophy namely to take the moral intuitions that

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