{"id":1357,"date":"2023-06-26T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/sam-harris-and-the-problem-of-disagreement\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:04:31","slug":"sam-harris-and-the-problem-of-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/sam-harris-and-the-problem-of-disagreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris and the Problem of Disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is conversation our only hope?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/sam-harris-and-the-problem-of-disagreement\">stack-leader<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">What about ethical instruction?&#0160; Only a liberal fool would advocate conversations with young children about theft and murder and lying and bestiality as if the rightness or wrongness of these acts is subject to reasonable debate or is a matter of mere opinion.&#0160; They must be taught that these things are wrong for their own good and for the good of others. Discussion of ethical niceties and theories comes later, if at all, and presupposes ethical indoctrination: a child who has not internalized and appropriated ethical prescriptions and proscriptions cannot profit from ethical conversations or courses in ethics.&#0160; \u2018Indoctrination,\u2019 contrary to \u2018woke\u2019 dogma, is not a dirty word. To have had sound doctrines inculcated in one at an early age is obviously a good thing. You cannot make a twenty-year-old ethical by requiring him to take a course in ethics.&#0160; He must <em>already<\/em> be ethical by early upbringing, and thus by indoctrination and example without conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is conversation our only hope? Substack stack-leader Excerpt: What about ethical instruction?&#0160; Only a liberal fool would advocate conversations with young children about theft and murder and lying and bestiality as if the rightness or wrongness of these acts is subject to reasonable debate or is a matter of mere opinion.&#0160; They must be taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/sam-harris-and-the-problem-of-disagreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sam Harris and the Problem of Disagreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disagreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}