Steven Pinker’s Half-Hearted Defense of Rationality
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Morality Has Impartiality
There's a kind of avail lity bias in his own thinking here about what morality is and where it comes from, if because f the fact that morality has impartiality is a very recent view in the history of ethics. Ah, you go back to ancient greece, they don't have any like this at all. They they see morality and ethics as intimately connected to human flourishing. And so there's an availability heristic here that's contributing to the kind of bandwagon falacy everybody in this current century thinks of ethics this way, therefore that's what it must be. This is the truth they've all discovered.
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