I have just started reading Peter Singer’s book of 82 essays: Ethics in the Real World. This is a very accessible book for those interested in philosophy.
Logical positivism had passed me by, thankfully. I get the impression that objective truth was rejected by logical positivists. Derek Parfit has resurrected objective truth in his 1400 page, two volumes opus On What Matters. Singer advocates reading the first 400 pages to get the gist of his thinking.
If we reject the supernatural in favour of a secular approach to moral philosophy, it is comforting to know that objective truths can set the benchmark for what is right and wrong.
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