The Moral Landscape

Main Ideas

• Morality and ethics can be objectively justified based on science and facts about human well-being.
• There is an objective spectrum of human well-being states that can be measured and evaluated.
• Moral truths can be discovered through science, similar to how we uncover truths in other fields of knowledge.
• Ethical questions should be considered through the lens of human well-being and suffering.
• Religion and traditional moral systems are not necessary for defining morality and may even hinder its objective understanding.
• The moral landscape serves as a metaphor, where peaks and valleys symbolize different states of well-being and suffering.
• Science and rational thinking can help us determine which actions and policies promote the greatest well-being.