Why You're Wrong about Morality

I sat down with @lanceindependent to talk morality, metaethics, and moral relativism. We particularly focused on the mistakes people tend to make about moral and metaethical relativism.

Uploaded 08-12-25

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00:00:00 Comparing Ethics and Metaethics
00:00:56 Introducing The Moral Realist/Anti-Realist Debate
00:11:58 Misconceptions About Moral Relativism
00:19:16 The Overcomparison Fallacy
00:28:01 How to Know if Someone is a Moral Realist/Anti-Realist
00:48:08 How Reliable Are Our Moral Intuitions?
00:52:01 Multiple Meanings of “Intuition”
00:53:50 Advancing Our Understanding Through Moral Disagreements
01:00:02 Everyday Disagreements
01:01:49 The True Function of Disagreements
01:13:48 Moral Relativists in Society
01:18:15 Social Goals Causing Fluidity in Moral Stances
01:20:49 Experimental Philosophy and Metaethics
01:37:20 Arguments from Formalism
01:48:52 Logical Positivism



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