MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.2, Ethics. The Trouble with Moral Naturalism.

Moral naturalism dominates academic approaches to ethics today. However, in deludedly attempting to merely describe ethics or base it on facts, it fails to acknowledge the unavoidable prescription of conventional values that accompanies the mere analysis of ethics. Instead of trying to reduce ethics to facts, we need to recognise the interdependence of facts and values, and develop an ethics that strikes a balance between being realistic and being challenging.