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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Game of Utilitarianism

Sally Kohn: I think that there is a certain sort of game that can be played here and this is basically the game that is played by academic moral philosophers who are debating these sorts of issues. She says they say, okay, so what you've done is you've given me a game where I just have to add in more assumptions in order to make this equation positive or negative. Kohn: The goal would be for the critic to make it come out positive so that utilitarianism recommends the serial killer surgeon and therefore violates our moral intuition.

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