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In this episode, we try to trace morality to its elusive foundations. Throughout the compilation we take a look at Sam's "Moral Landscape" and his effort to defend an objective path towards moral evaluation.

We begin with the moral philosopher Peter Singer who outlines ...

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Erik Hoel about the nature of moral truth. They discuss the connection between consequentialism and Effective Altruism, the problems with implementing academic moral philosophy, bad arguments against consequentialism, the ...

Sam Harris speaks with John Gray about the possibility of moral and political progress. They discuss historical and current threats to freedom of thought, the limits of law, the spread of dangerous technology, failures of convergence on norms and values, Arthur Koestler, de-in ...

Should we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus?

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