denXte: Moral – Alles einfach eine Frage des (guten) Geschmacks?

In the organizer's words:

Moral judgments often seem compelling and out of the question. It is morally wrong to torture innocent people - end of discussion. Human dignity is inviolable - period. When people argue about moral views, we typically assume that one of them is right and the other is necessarily wrong. Morality is not a matter of taste or perspective. Or is it? Empirical studies in moral psychology suggest that our moral beliefs are much more flexible than we think. They depend not only on our cultural background and upbringing, but also on very specific situational factors. What do such findings mean for philosophy? Is morality perhaps more an expression of personal preferences - but not an objective fact? Discuss with denXte and Prof. Pascale Willemsen (University of Zurich)!

denXte is an interactive philosophical lecture series in which renowned philosophers present socially topical and scientifically relevant issues in the form of thought experiments. At a typical denXte evening, everyone's opinions are in demand: after a short thematic introduction by the philosophers, the audience is invited to explore their own intuition on the topic and - by voting with their smartphone and in a subsequent open discussion - to let it flow in.