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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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The Attraction of Moral Realism

"I feel sad that I'm not a moral realist even though I think that's the right thing to do," he says. "You don't have to just be a screaming relativist and say well whatever different societies want to say that's fine I can't judge them." The question is: Are those standards in any way morally superior to the standards of my own society? And that's something that's going to be very hard for you to answer, according to him.

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