#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is there a Line Between Morality and Practical Ethics?
There's a tendency in recent moral philosophy ethics that I think is right to blur those lines and to suggest that we can't really draw those distinctions. That sort of blurring of lines also applies to the kinds of questions about objectivity that you're raising. So on the one hand, there's a lot of moral disagreements, a lot of disagreement in ethics. And when we try to engage in ethical arguments, we often sort of come to loggerheads with other people. It seems like there's a kind of question about how we could know the answer or whether there are really objective answers. The Moral Landscape by David Frum: How do we know? What do I know? And
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