Does Moral Truth Exist? (Robert Wright & Gideon Rosen)

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Defining "moral realism" ... Cognitivists vs. noncognitivists ... Are moral beliefs just expressions of human desires? ... Human happiness is better than human suffering...right? ... Considering whether you can be both a Darwinian and a moral realist ... Moral progress, teleology, and mysticism ... Why you "have to take something for granted" in any philosophical system ... The bedrock sources of meaning in life ... If life has meaning, does moral realism logically follow? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.4	Hi, Gideon.
0:09.8	Hey, Bob.
0:10.9	How are you doing?
0:11.9	I'm all right.
0:12.6	How are you?
0:13.5	I'm excellent.
0:14.5	Let me introduce this.
0:15.2	I'm Robert Wright.
0:16.1	This is the Wright show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:20.1	You're Gideon Rosen Professor of
0:21.7	Philosophy at Princeton University whose machinery just emitted a ping. Was that an email alert?
0:27.6	It is and I cannot figure out how to turn those off. That's okay. As long as you're not doing it to show off,
0:32.3	like about how popular you are or something, how many emails you get.
0:48.1	So regular viewers of the right show and or meaning of life TV and or subscribers to one of those podcasts may be familiar with you.
0:53.6	We've had conversations about materialism, about free will.
0:58.5	Today we're going to tackle something called moral realism,
1:01.8	which we will try to define shortly.
1:04.6	First, let me say another thing or two about you.
1:09.3	You started off doing philosophy of mathematics, I think,
1:12.3	or at least at some point did a lot of that, right?
1:13.1	That's right.
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