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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Pros and Cons of Utilitarianism

Peter Singer and Will McCaskill have led the charge for a movement called effective altruism. A cynical view dismisses consequentialism as being capable of justifying anything if you just wait long enough. And then there's the deeper philosophical question which we initially raised, whether something can be objectively labeled as a moral good or not.

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