A Critique of Sam Harris' "The Moral Landscape"

Thanks for this! I read Geuss' "Philosophy and Real Politics" recently and I enjoyed his clear writing style. I'll definitely get into this soon

Cuck Philosophy

Thanks! I didn't know there was a name for it, it will be useful in the future, as it's pretty common among intellectual-dark-web-type public figures

Cuck Philosophy

Great, insightful essay. You plainly put a lot of work into this, and it shows in the final product. You mention Harris's tactic of asserting a belief, and then when confronted, "diluting" the belief into a banal or unassailable position. This tactic is growingly referred to as the 'motte-and-bailey doctrine." If you wish, here are a couple of places to read more about it: <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf</a> <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-words-words-words/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-words-words-words/</a> (section II) Thank you for your hard work!

On the topic of "general overviews" of continental ethics, I found Raymond Geuss' "Outside Ethics" to be quite good coming from a more analytic background. It doesn't get into things in too much depth, and I already had a tiny bit of a background on Hegel to not get too bogged down in "lol spirit that sounds kind of dumb" when he talks about that (which might be a concern for others), but one thing I really appreciated was opening up my thinking to a broader set of questions and concerns than I had been familiar with before in a way that didn't cause me to subsume a number of people in the continental tradition as asking the same kinds of familiar questions. <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8099.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8099.html</a>

Simon Cook