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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consequences in Academic Philosophy

"I think that if you take academic philosophy too seriously, you shouldn't really go and try to perfectly instantiate it in the world," he says. "That's what this sort of arbitrage leads is, right? It's this like taking it really, really seriously." He adds: "There's a distinction I made in the moral landscape between answers in practice and answers in principle"

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