Is Moral Certainty Possible?

Is Moral Certainty Possible?

I was on with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. the other day discussing whether moral certainty is possible. The answer is yes. But that does not imply we always know it.

Here is the link to the episode. You can download the mp3 at that same link. Or you can listen here.

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Here are his shownotes:

We welcome back William M. Briggs, known as Statistician to the Stars, to take up the question of whether there are things we can know for certain about right and wrong. How do faith, reason, and logic help us to spot the difference between a sound moral argument and a persuasive one that is simply incorrect?

Show Notes

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

Right And Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice

Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

Thomas Aquinas: The Division and Methods of the Sciences

Real Philosophy for Real People

W.M. Briggs: Statistician to the Stars!

Science Is Not The Answer

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