Moral Realism: Defended

Join us at: http://www.inspiringphilosophy.org To help support this ministry click here: http://www.patreon.com/inspiringphilosophy In this video we offer several arguments in defense of moral realism, the position that objective moral values and duties exist. See part 1 for what moral realism means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk88sZw4YhM Special thanks to Maximus Confesses for reviewing and helping with the content for this video. To follow Max, and a bunch of other Catholic writers, for their posts and dank memes, subscribe over on medium, and/or like their Facebook group: https://medium.com/the-liturgical-legion https://www.facebook.com/LiturgicalLegion/ Sources: The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism - Terence Cuneo http://tamilnation.co/humanrights/sartre.htm Metaethics: An Introduction - Andrew Fisher Essays on Moral Realism - Geoffrey Sayre-McCord The Autonomy of Ethics - David O. Brink Moral Realism: A Defense - Russ Shafer-Landau Moral Realism - Kevin DeLapp http://www.iep.utm.edu/eth-expr/ *If you are caught excessively commenting, being disrespectful, insulting, or derailing then your comments will be removed. If you do not like it you can watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0Hq-sy3Wg&feature=plcp "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."