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Who Is The Best Philosopher? 16 Thinkers, Ranked - Episode 100
22:41difficult to grasp just how prolific Aristotle is you know you think about writes on physics and ethics and you23:48like you'll be surprised at how much of atomic habits is in the Nic kamakan ethics aristal notion of habituation you24:04philosophy on a pure practical level the nickak ethics is something that that I think everyone could benefit from
Are Ethics Just Emotions? - Simon Blackburn
0:00Simon Blackburn, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Most people who think about ethics know0:06that there are kind of two ways of thinking about it. You've got realism on the one side. Ethics is a real thing.0:21ethics is not real, that it's made up, a matter of opinion, that kind of thing. Right? Most people are familiar with
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Critique of G.E. Moore: Blackburn identifies G.E. Moore's 1903 introduction of 'non-natural properties' and 'intuition' as the starting point for the problematic 'realist appearance' in ethics, arguing it led philosophertakeawayFunctionalism in Ethics vs. Science: Blackburn draws a parallel between ethics and physics, noting that science explains what things do (functionalism) rather than their intrinsic nature. Similarly, ethics should explaintakeawayHolism and the Myth of the Given: Referencing Wilfrid Sellars, Blackburn argues against atomistic views of knowledge ('heap of shot'). Instead, believing a simple fact like 'the table exists' involves a complex web of cotakeaway
DEBATE: Can Atheism Justify Human Rights? | Cosmic Skeptic vs Subboor Ahmad
Sabour counters that without a supernatural anchor, atheism leads to moral nihilism where ethics are merely biological adaptations, rendering human rights arbitrary and unenforceable.summaryEvolutionary Ethics: The debate centers on whether evolution selects for specific moral truths or merely adaptive behaviors. Sabour argues that if we 'rewound the tape of life,' we might evolve different morals (e.g., vitakeaway“If we rewind the tape of life and replay it again we can end up with completely different set of morals ethics values... we may not even have the idea of pleasure and pain.”quote
How Science Can Give Us Morality - Sam Harris
The 'Worst Possible Misery' Axiom: Harris argues that a universe where every conscious being suffers maximally is objectively worse than any other state. This serves as the foundational, non-circular premise for objectivtakeawayThe Double Standard in Ethics: Harris critiques secular ethicists for applying a double standard where foundational disagreements in physics or math are dismissed as irrelevant to truth, while similar disagreements in ettakeaway
Debating Morality With Philosophical Legends
This panel discussion explores the foundations of morality through four distinct philosophical lenses: utilitarianism (Singer), divine command theory (Swinburne), emotivism (O'Connor), and emergent ethics (Frasier).summaryJessica Frasier proposes an 'ethics of ascent' where goodness is an emergent property of the universe, arising from consciousness and empathy, rather than being pre-existing or purely subjective.takeaway“Ethics is a certain way of looking at it that sees ethics and goodness as real. It's something that emerges and every being that is able to help generate it as an experience in some creature is part of that ethical realquote
The One Thing God Cannot Do
The video explores four distinct philosophical and ethical topics: the semantic definition of opposites in sensory experiences, the logical paradoxes of omnipotence, the virtue ethics of video game morality, and the potesummaryVideo game ethics may be grounded in virtue ethics rather than consequentialism; even if virtual actions don't cause real-world harm, choosing immoral options might indicate a lack of virtue.takeaway“If we can learn anything from virtue ethics, it's that what the virtuous person does in any given situation is the right thing to do.”quote