01:15:38 min
CLEAR ALL
In 1959, Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and peace activist was just short of his 87th birthday, when he gave wide-ranging interviews to the BBC and the CBC.
We begin our unit on ethics with a look at metaethics. Hank explains three forms of moral realism—moral absolutism, and cultural relativism, including the difference between descriptive and normative cultural relativism—and moral subjectivism, which is a form of moral antirealism.
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We face choices daily—as individuals and communities. Both consciously and instinctively, there are things we believe and care about in these choices. Integrity happens when our commitments and actions match. When this happens, we feel good. When it doesn’t, we feel pain.