(December 2, 2018 at 6:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I haven't watched Harris in a while, but I don't think he's actually arguing that morality is intrinsically objective. I think he's saying that we could choose, if we like, to base morality in an objective metric, like hedonic state, and that this would be much better than the false dilemma: believe that God dictates moral truths, or watch the entire world burn in anarchy while everyone just does whatever they want.He definitely tries, regardless of whether he fails, to ground that choice in some meaningful objectivity. He does it quickly and breathlessly, as he does many other things....so it's easy to miss.
I could be wrong, though. I haven't read his books or anything.
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