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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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Morality Is a Cultural Byproduct of Relativivism

If you have a view according to which morality is created by us and for us then those reasons may be either strongly diminished or in fact non-existent. I want the vision of morality that I would I am hoping is correct is one according to which if something is morally required of you then that carries with it genuine non-self-interested kind of practical authority. All human beings are at a fundamental level moral equals to one another and their skin color, sex your gender they're irrelevant in the determination of how much respect and dignity a person deserves.

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