My intuition that this podcast is good is stonger than any argument to the effect that "goodness" doesn't exist. Therefore, moral anti-realism is false
Its just rude to have your cat crawling over you and you paying it attention when you have a guest who is speaking to you and can't join in chat about the cat.
At 1:01:10 ish Blackburn really lets himself down with his crass, caricatured version of God and morality. The notion that religious people are moral just because they fear God is ludicrous and pays no attention to serious theological thought on the topic. I think his philosophic rigour in this area is somewhat suspect because he’s been clouded by his association with pop-atheists like Dawkins, Grayling, Krauss, etc. It’s really disappointing to hear this from such an eminent philosopher; the interview was great up till that point.
I'd listened to Simon Blackburn's contributions to In Our Time and the full album version is just as entertaining and interesting. Thank you!
My intuition that this podcast is good is stonger than any argument to the effect that "goodness" doesn't exist. Therefore, moral anti-realism is false
the sort of reasoning strongly supported by this very same podcast
Thanks for uploading such an unbelievable conversation!
so glad you enjoyed it!
Love it!
When is Kane Baker coming on?
Its just rude to have your cat crawling over you and you paying it attention when you have a guest who is speaking to you and can't join in chat about the cat.
At 1:01:10 ish Blackburn really lets himself down with his crass, caricatured version of God and morality. The notion that religious people are moral just because they fear God is ludicrous and pays no attention to serious theological thought on the topic. I think his philosophic rigour in this area is somewhat suspect because he’s been clouded by his association with pop-atheists like Dawkins, Grayling, Krauss, etc. It’s really disappointing to hear this from such an eminent philosopher; the interview was great up till that point.