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#48 — What Is Moral Progress?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Is-Ought Dichotomy Is Uninteresting to Me

"You can't get to any description of what is without obeying certain aughts in the first place," he says. "So, logical intuitions are not self-justifying ... We just grab them and use them and desire for evidence." He adds that valuing movement away from misery could lead to good things.

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