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Ep 8 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5, Part 1

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Moral Philosophy Is Not About How to Treat Other People

In order to understand the moral landscape in terms of a given set of values, one needs to understand some as being a certain way as well. Success at making factual scientific discoveries entails a commitment to all sorts of values that are necessary for making progress. We should not be surprised at these connections. The truth has structural unity as well as logical consistency. And i guess that no true explanation is entirely disconnected from any other. Since the universe is explicable, it must be that morally right values are connected in this way with true, factual theories and morally wrong values with false theories. If you were suddenly the last human on earth, you would be wondering what sort of life to want,. deciding i

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