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On Morals and Reality
Actually, do not let the preceding review throw anyone - Hume is by no means the last word on the 'is/ought'... Rand, for instance, provides good answers... in any case, this is a worth reading and thinking about book, if for no other reason than to consider what makes for values and which, thus, are truly in accordance with nature - and which are erroneously assumed,...
Published 20 months ago by A. Robert Malcom
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Caveat Emptor: The Is/Ought Divide
I saw the title of this book, which illustrates some of the problems with University of Chicago publications of late. They used to have some degree of intellectual respectability, now it's increasingly become the imprint for all things absurd. I wonder how Adler and Hutchins feel about their College's reputation being tarred and feathered? Frankly, the book's...
Published on August 21, 2008 by D. S. Heersink
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This review is from: The Moral Authority of Nature (Paperback)
Actually, do not let the preceding review throw anyone - Hume is by no means the last word on the 'is/ought'... Rand, for instance, provides good answers... in any case, this is a worth reading and thinking about book, if for no other reason than to consider what makes for values and which, thus, are truly in accordance with nature - and which are erroneously assumed, as justification for cultural impositions...
2 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Caveat Emptor: The Is/Ought Divide,
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This review is from: The Moral Authority of Nature (Paperback)
I saw the title of this book, which illustrates some of the problems with University of Chicago publications of late. They used to have some degree of intellectual respectability, now it's increasingly become the imprint for all things absurd. I wonder how Adler and Hutchins feel about their College's reputation being tarred and feathered?
Frankly, the book's own promotion is a reason to ignore it. "For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments." Well, hyperbole aside, the Is/Ought (Fact/Value) Divide and its kindred fallacy, the naturalistic fallacy, are fairly well established (is/ought from Hume in 1740, Moore's naturalistic fallacy in 1903). I guess our editors are so PostModern they ignored Modernity and skipped their facts for their values. So, without needing to read the book to know it is nonsensical, I simply offer possible readers some philosophical advice: Facts do not values make, nor values a fact make. Hume's Is/Ought Divide is a chasm that cannot be crossed, not even with PostModernism's tactics. No one denies FACTS are valuable, nor VALUES help us find facts. Yet, for their epistemic foundations, "nature" is in the realm of FACTS, and "morality" is in the realm of VALUES. For those with philosophical parlance, epistemological and axiological spheres of human judgment do not "interbreed." Proceed at your own risk. Watch for fallacies falling. |
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The Moral Authority of Nature by Lorraine Daston (Paperback - December 15, 2003)
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