Language and Identity

The Bottom Turtle Podcast

We're back! Welcome to the fourth season of The Bottom Turtle Podcast.
In this season of the the podcast, we're shaking things up. First, this season will be focused on the theme of the objective truth of ethics and evil. That is, the goal of this season will be to present an objective argument for ethics, which then implies that evil is the opposite of the objective ethic. But to make this argument, we first have to clearly define identity and its relation to objectivity since, as we claim, ethics is fundamental a question about relationships with others. This also makes ethics a question of how one's relationship with themselves and their own identity since one's identity depends on their relationship with others. This is the dependent origination principle of Buddhism.
Dr. Ray's conversational partner for this season is theoretical physicist Ryan Scott. Ryan is currently working on his PhD at a prominent R1 university where he studies theoretical models for developing a quantum CPU using ultracold polar molecules. Beyond his academic work, Ryan is deeply interested in the logical structure of psychology and Christian theology. His mathematical interests include mathematical logic, algebras and lattices, topos theory, Lie theory, lambda calculus, and dependent type theory. Ryan also has a YouTube channel called An American Analytic where he posts his lectures on the logical nature and truth of Christian theology.
In today's episode, we begin our argument for the objective truth of ethics by first discussing the relationship between identity and language. More specifically, we make an argument refuting the idea that one must accept another's self identification otherwise you are committing harm or you're doing something fundamentally immoral. We argue that this claim is fundamentally at odds with how reality works and is the moral/ethical equivalent of believing the Earth is flat.
So join us if you want to hear our arguments and come to know the truth of ethics.
Links
Ryan's YouTube Channel An American Analytic:
https://www.youtube.com/@anamericananalytic6346

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