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Within Reason

#4 — Rationality Rules | Is Morality Objective?

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Woodford is the owner of the YouTube channel 'Rationality Rules'. He is an atheist, moral objectivist and graphic designer, has given public talks on morality, and found considerable success with his regular online videos. He and Alex have had an ongoing disagreement about ethics since 2017, and in this podcast common ground is finally reached, as the two conclude the episode in agreement.

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0:00.0

This episode of the Cosmic Skeptic podcast is brought to you by you.

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0:38.5

For a short time, the number two philosophy podcast in the United Kingdom.

0:44.2

And I want to remind you that the reason that we were able to have that accolade was because

0:48.6

of the fact that you were voting on iTunes.

0:51.2

I want to remind you that it only takes a second to open the podcast app, which comes with every single iPhone. Have you, have you done that? No. You don't use

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iPhone. It must happen. But we can go on to iTunes and you can give the Cosmix Cup

1:04.4

podcast a rating of five stars. It just helps analytics on iTunes. It produces, it puts our content on the front page, on the trending pages, and allows

1:15.9

us to have better stats.

1:16.8

Reach out to better guests.

1:18.7

And speaking of great guests, I'm joined in the studio today by my good friend, Stephen

1:23.5

Woodford, who most of you will know from the YouTube channel Rationality Rules, a channel which discusses everything from religious claims in atheism to the flat earth,

1:33.3

to more recently the issue of transgender athletes and Brexit as well.

1:40.3

You've really been pushing the very out there.

1:42.3

I decided to have a good at politics.

1:43.3

Yeah, so thanks to joining me. It's good and happy here.

1:46.0

Well, thank you very much for having me. It's always a pleasure.

1:48.0

Yeah, it's going to be fun. So the reason that I've got here, Steven, is because of the fact that as followers of my YouTube channel will know,

1:55.0

we've had many previous discussions on the issue of morality. And we had a discussion together that was

2:02.3

quite long on my channel. And then you made a video about your views on morality. I made

2:08.6

a video called rationality rules debunked. And then you made a video called Cosmic Skeptic

2:13.3

debunked. And it's kind of left in the air. Like I criticize you, you criticize me and people have

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