Why Natural Law Theory is FALSE

Amos Wollen joins me to assess Natural Law Theory. We talk about sex, bubblegum, and everything in between. OUTLINE 0:00 Intro 1:37 Preamble 3:26 Classical NLT and Perverted Faculty Argument 7:54 Attributivism 17:18 Intrinsic teleology and theism 29:00 Egoism objection and animal ethics 37:04 Reductios 42:10 Bubblegum 1:03:53 Smoking 1:04:18 Pica and purging 1:10:28 Bleach and bright lights 1:11:13 Lying 1:14:22 Intellectual powers and falsity pills 1:18:39 Animal ethics (again) 1:21:56 New NLT 1:29:57 Against gay sex 1:33:03 (Appropriate) Pleasure as intrinsically good 1:35:07 Pursuing ‘illusions’ 1:39:28 Disintegration argument 1:51:31 Is Marriage a basic good? 1:57:04 One body? 2:06:34 Reductios 2:13:22 Final remarks 2:18:51 Outro RESOURCES (1) Amos' PhilPapers profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amos-wollen (2) Amos' substack, "Going Awoll": https://wollenblog.substack.com/ (3) Amos' YouTube channel: @going_awoll (4) Discussion on NLT and sexuality between Dustin Crummett and Brian Besong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPen831EkYg&pp=ygUfYnJpYW4gYmVzb25nIHZzIGR1c3RpbiBjcnVtbWV0dA%3D%3D (5) Amos' first discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltLyImVkd0 (6) Amos' second discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Frt7U50Y4 (7) My first discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07MaWJFzuwM (8) My second discussion with Brian Besong on NLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-34AJqO_A (9) Applied Ethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaYPueOwJRE0CPj6xyIWfxb