What Is Your Moral Response to Taxes?

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We sometimes demand from our moral concepts that they allow us to look at the world and always have one very straightforward and obvious answer. There, as allays, going to be circumstances in which different moral considerations weigh against each other in a very significant way. What we should ask of a moral feory such as yours is not whether it makes all of us things easy and we always know exactly what to do,. its whether we feel like it allows us to express the nature of a moral conflict in ways that are coherent.

T. M. Scanlon, one of the world's preeminent moral philosophers, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University until his retirement. In his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other, Scanlon gives a liberal account of how to reason through what it takes to act justly in matters of morality as well as politics.

In this week’s conversation, T. M. Scanlon and Yascha Mounk discuss the true meaning of tolerance, how to decide whether an action is morally right or wrong, and why the question of free will isn’t as important as you might think.

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