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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Moral Evaluation of Spousal Abuse

The moral evaluation that spousal abuse is a moral wrong does not necessarily dictate or imply any of the potential next actions. The temptation to plant a moral judgment and objective, non-anthropocentric ground has been used to justify horrendous behavior. In fact, one of the branches on the moral realist side of our philosophy tree is divine commandment theory. This is a claim that God defines what is morally good and bad and imparts that to us.

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