RE: Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?
October 1, 2018 at 6:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2018 at 6:13 pm by possibletarian.)
I always prefer to listen to Harris than I do to read him, I find his books a little too fragmented to really get to grips with them.
I recently listened to a podcast when he had Sean Carroll as a guest, they were debating if 'maximum good' should really be, or could even be justified as an 'ought' it got heated in parts, but a good listen.
It can be found in the 'Waking Up' section of Harris's website.
Personally since I became athiest I've never understood the need of people to have objective moral values, when it seems clear to me that they never existed other than as tribal or national laws, and being enforceable and failure to comply meant punishment they took on the semblance of objective.
I recently listened to a podcast when he had Sean Carroll as a guest, they were debating if 'maximum good' should really be, or could even be justified as an 'ought' it got heated in parts, but a good listen.
It can be found in the 'Waking Up' section of Harris's website.
Personally since I became athiest I've never understood the need of people to have objective moral values, when it seems clear to me that they never existed other than as tribal or national laws, and being enforceable and failure to comply meant punishment they took on the semblance of objective.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'
