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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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Why Do You Believe Moral Realism?

Lee: Why do I believe moral realism and then why do I favor the non-naturalism? Is that okay? Or like that? Yeah. Well, if you think back to the taxonomy I gave earlier, one way to see the attractions of moral realism is by seeing what's problematic with the opponents. It's not necessarily just an argument from elimination, but it helps to put the attractions of realism into sharp focus,. So if you've got a nihilist version, I think I myself think that's a version of last resort. And my thought is that when doing philosophy, there's no alternative but to rely at various junctures on our intuitions.

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