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#48 — What Is Moral Progress?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Intuition of Two Plus Two Makes Four

I was always using science in a much more elastic sense to coincide with the way you're using the word reason. I'm not just talking about people in white lab coats who can run experiments immediately on any given hypothesis or ever. There's nothing more sure than some of these claims we could make about morality. Once we look at the intuitions we're using to make the claims, the intuition of two plus two makes four is generalizable. So it works for apples, it works for oranges,. It works for boats. That intuition that is at the foundation of arithmetic again is just something we apes are doing with our with our minds.

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