#1067 David Benatar - Very Practical Ethics: Engaging Everyday Moral Questions

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by for a fourth time by Dr. David Benatar. And today we're talking about his latest book, Very Practical Ethics, Engaging Everyday Moral. questions. So Doctor Benatter, welcome back on the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Thank you very much. It's always a pleasure to be with you. So I mean it's very interesting because you go through a lot of different

kinds of uh ethical questions that people might face in their everyday lives. We you talk, for example, about sex, the environment, smoking, giving aid. consumption of animal products, the certain uses of language. But before we get into some of those examples, let me uh start by uh let me start by asking you some general questions. So first of all, what is practical ethics and Ауду камен проблем здеболфейс. differ from, for example, scenarios explore the nethics that affect maybe only a select number of people or even fought experiments involving events that problem that probably no one is ever going to be faced with.

Sure, well the area of practical ethics is much broader than I'm covering in this particular book. Practical ethics is concerned, as the name suggests, with practical ethical problems. There are the areas of ethics that look into questions for example about what makes a right action right or a wrong action wrong. And they will sometimes refer to examples, and as you note, sometimes those examples are gonna be

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