Metaethics: Objective Morality or Human Construction?

Are moral truths discovered or invented?
Is right and wrong grounded in reality itself, or do moral claims ultimately reflect human attitudes, cultures, or power structures?
In this meetup, we step back from applied ethics and ask the deeper metaethical questions behind all moral debate:

• Are there objective moral facts, independent of human opinion?
• Or is morality subjective, relative to individuals or societies?
• If moral claims aim at truth, what kind of truth is it?

We will explore and critically discuss major metaethical positions, such as:

• Moral realism vs anti-realism
• Subjectivism, relativism, and expressivism
• Divine command theory
• Naturalism and non-naturalism
• Error theory (are all moral claims false?)

No prior expertise is required, but the discussion will be serious, analytical, and charitable. The goal is not to “win” but to clarify what we mean when we say things like “this is wrong” or “you ought to do X.”

Come prepared to question your assumptions—and to defend them.

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