#47: Is Morality Objective? | David Enoch

What makes something truly wrong — not just uncomfortable, or culturally disapproved, but objectively, universally wrong?

In this episode of The Prometheans, Ali Zaka sits down with Professor David Enoch — one of the world's leading moral philosophers, Oxford Professor of the Philosophy of Law, and author of Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism — to tackle one of the oldest questions in philosophy:

Is morality objective, or is it all relative?

Professor Enoch defends Robust Realism — the radical claim that moral truths exist independently of culture, religion, evolution, or human opinion. This isn't a comfortable view. It means that when cultures disagree about justice, rights, or human dignity, one of them is actually wrong. And it means your moral intuitions — when you feel that cruelty is evil — are tracking something real.

We explore:

What "moral objectivity" actually means philosophically

Why Enoch believes relativism collapses when you take it seriously

The evolutionary debunking argument — and why he isn't afraid of it

How morality can be objective without requiring God

What moral disagreement across religions and cultures really proves

Why AI cannot "know" a moral truth — and what that means for the future

Whether you come from a religious tradition or a secular one, this conversation will challenge the way you think about right and wrong.

David Enoch is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford and Professor of Philosophy and Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book Taking Morality Seriously (Oxford University Press, 2011) is widely regarded as the definitive modern defense of moral realism.

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