25 If you hold the key to your own handcuffs, are you actually bound?

Lifelong Learning With A. A. Khatana · Aug 27, 2026 · 25m

There is a profound tension between our desire for absolute moral standards and the reality of cultural diversity. When we try to declare an action universally wrong, we run headfirst into philosophies that reduce morality to mere custom, feeling, or personal choice.In this episode, we unpack three major modern assaults on objective ethics. We start with the arguments for moral relativism, testing whether the fact of global disagreement actually disproves universal moral truths. Then, we dive into the mid-twentieth-century school of logical positivism, which dismissed moral claims as mere…