Ethics are a funny thing. If you asked most people on the street what they believe about what’s right or wrong, they probably wouldn’t be able to give you a very robust explanation. That’s because we don’t often spend a whole lot of time thinking about the valance of moral decisions, for most of us it just comes down to our culture and what we feel is the best thing at any given moment.

But claims about how we should behave, or about how we know how we should behave, have incredibly broad implications in not just our everyday lives but our world as a whole, so it’s well worth our time to think critically about them every now and again.

On today’s episode we do just that! I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and host of the Embrace the Void Podcast. Aaron and I discuss the how’s and the whys of what it means to be good in a world without God, or anything else supernatural, and the different ways that different people can come to very similar ideas about ethical principles, even if we start from different places. www.reasoningaloud.org/arronrabinowitz