Dharma talk recorded at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
41:11 min
CLEAR ALL
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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