Why Natural Law Theory is FALSE - Video

Amos Wollen joins me to assess Natural Law Theory. We talk about sex, bubblegum, and everything in between.

OUTLINE

0:00 Intro
1:37 Preamble
3:26 Classical NLT and Perverted Faculty Argument
7:54 Attributivism
17:18 Intrinsic teleology and theism
29:00 Egoism objection and animal ethics
37:04 Reductios
42:10 Bubblegum
1:03:53 Smoking
1:04:18 Pica and purging
1:10:28 Bleach and bright lights
1:11:13 Lying
1:14:22 Intellectual powers and falsity pills
1:18:39 Animal ethics (again)
1:21:56 New NLT
1:29:57 Against gay sex
1:33:03 (Appropriate) Pleasure as intrinsically good
1:35:07 Pursuing ‘illusions’
1:39:28 Disintegration argument
1:51:31 Is Marriage a basic good?
1:57:04 One body?
2:06:34 Reductios
2:13:22 Final remarks
2:18:51 Outro

RESOURCES

(1) Amos' PhilPapers profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amos-wollen

(2) Amos' substack, "Going Awoll": https://wollenblog.substack.com/

(3) Amos' YouTube channel: @going_awoll

(4) Discussion on NLT and sexuality between Dustin Crummett and Brian Besong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPen831EkYg&pp=ygUfYnJpYW4gYmVzb25nIHZzIGR1c3RpbiBjcnVtbWV0dA%3D%3D

(5) Amos' first discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltLyImVkd0

(6) Amos' second discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Frt7U50Y4

(7) My first discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07MaWJFzuwM

(8) My second discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-34AJqO_A

(9) Applied Ethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaYPueOwJRE0CPj6xyIWfxb