Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This event, "The Mystery of Morality", was hosted at the Royal Institution on the 12th of June, 2025.

Peter Singer (Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University), is a world-renowned utilitarian philosopher and animal rights advocate. Jessica Frazier (Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies), is a scholar of comparative religion and Indian philosophy at the University of Oxford. Richard Swinburne (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford), is a leading Christian philosopher and defender of theism.

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0:00 Introduction
4:06 Peter Singer Opening
7:03 Jessica Frazier Opening
10:23 Richard Swinburne Opening
16:33 Alex O'Connor Opening
21:47 How Do We Ground Ethics?
35:49 Emotions and Feeling in Ethics
41:58 Homosexuality Debate
56:27 Animal Ethics
1:08:20 Critiquing of Utilitarianism
1:17:31 QnA

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