Simon Blackburn Part 2: Moral Relativism, Free Will, and the Meaning of Life

The Dissenter - A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Simon Blackburn: Moral Relativism, Free Will, Meaning of Life. Time Links: 00:00 Contradictions of moral relativism  05:17 Nihilism  10:21 Free will and personal responsibility  15:22 Can truth be cruel? 19:17 Pleasure in ethics 23:22 Religion, science, and the meaning of life 26:36 Immortality 29:53 How is beauty related to truth and morality? 34:50 Follow Dr. Blackburn’s work  -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g