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Q&A: Is Morality a Mirage

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Is Morality a Mirage

Question

Hello and blessings to the Rabbi.
I was sitting in the audience at your debate with Professor Enoch and derived great pleasure from your remarks.
I understood from what you said that we perceive morality in a way similar to sense perception — through the eyes of the intellect, as you put it.
My question is: why do we believe morality is real and not just a mirage? After all, in our sensory experiences we often cast doubt and verify them from several directions so as not to fall into optical illusions.
Maybe the whole moral idea is really a kind of optical illusion of the eyes of the intellect? Even if we accept the obligation to listen to morality, perhaps we do not actually know what it is at all?
One of the reasons I believe in sensory experience is that all people see the same thing. But with morality, that is really not true!

Answer

This is a skeptical question that can be raised about anything. I have no answer to it. As far as I am concerned, what I think is correct until proven otherwise. By the way, with respect to morality, the disagreements are not all that deep. Overall, we agree on the overwhelming majority of things.

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