#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

Sam Harris speaks with John Gray about the possibility of moral
and political progress. They discuss historical and current
threats to freedom of thought, the limits of law, the spread of
dangerous technology, failures of convergence on norms and
values, Arthur Koestler, de-industrialization in Europe, fellow
travelers and the progressive embrace of barbarism, Bertrand
Russell, the absurdity of pacifism, utilitarianism, the moral
landscape, George Santayana, moral and scientific realism,
pragmatism, atheism, Schopenhauer, liberalism as an historical
accident, and other topics.


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