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RE: Morality for the Modern World
I'm sure you know this already, but Sam Harris tackles this subject as well. He is a neuroscientist who wrote a book on it. Nice post, I enjoy reading about objective truth and morality
Thanks for the reply! I am a big Sam Harris fan. His conception of objective morality viewed as "Maximizing the well-being of conscious creatures" is certainly compatible with my view. I felt that the maximizing part of his claim is a bit harder to justify as an objective standard, thus I went with my somewhat weaker claim that "All conscious beings are worthy of respect and ought have the opportunity to flourish"