Error Theory - Is Morality a Total Sham?

ERROR THEORY: IS MORALITY A TOTAL SHAM? // Error theory is a view that's skeptical about morality. It claims that people are systematically in error when they make moral judgments. You might think you know that genocide is morally wrong, but for J.L. Mackie you don't know this. There are no objective moral values or properties for your judgment to latch onto. Morality is something like a useful delusion.

In this philosophy lecture, I explain error theory and cover objections to it.
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Russ Shafer-Landau (2019), Living Ethics, Oxford University Press.

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