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

Lifelong Learning With A. A. Khatana · Sep 3, 2026 · 13m

We naturally look for solid, universal rules to guide our lives, but modern thought has raised deep intellectual barriers against objective ethics. When we try to assert that certain actions are universally wrong, we are quickly met with claims that we are merely imposing our own cultural habits or emotional preferences.In this episode, we evaluate the three major intellectual challenges that seek to dismantle the objective foundation of ethics. We begin with moral relativism, analyzing how the simple fact of cultural disagreement is often mistaken for proof that moral reality is relative. We…