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Meta-ethics and the human future


Russell Blackford

Russell Blackford


Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
January 14, 2007

In my recent series of posts in which I’ve attacked the idea that morality is objective, I have not sought to deny that morality of some kind is inevitable for human societies. I think it is . I also think that much of its actual content is inevitable for us ... i.e., for human beings or any species much like us. In a sense, then, we might want to say that some of the basic content of morality is objectively justified, after all, because we would not want to do without it.

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