Set up a debate

Moral truths exist independently of human opinion

Whether moral claims can be true or false in the way factual claims are, or whether they express attitudes, conventions, or choices.

Animals have minds in the same sense humans do

Whether the difference between human and animal mental life is one of degree or one of kind.

We can be certain of anything at all

Whether any belief is immune to all possible doubt, or whether the most we can achieve is well-justified confidence.

Death is what gives life its meaning

Whether mortality is the condition that makes choices matter and lives take shape, or whether death is simply the deprivation of everything valuable.

It is better to strive for greatness than to be content

Whether the good life is one of restless striving toward excellence, or one of peace with what one has and is.