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Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is Objective Morality Possible?

Simon Saloy: Most people don't think moral objectivism requires some platonic heaven where moral facts subsist. They are within the realm of thinking that we have certain practices in terms of which we can make moral claims, he says. The point about a third world or a Perpierian world is well taken and I have no interest in defending it, writes Joanna Lumley. "The basic judgments from which we start, those stand firm," she adds.

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