Philosophy: David Hume's is/ought problem (1739): you cannot derive…

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Did you know? David Hume's is/ought problem (1739): you cannot derive a moral "ought" from facts about what IS. Example: nature is cruel, therefore humans must be cruel — illogical. Hume showed that ethics does not come from science; the "naturalistic fallacy" was named after this problem 200 years later.

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David Hume's is/ought problem (1739): you cannot derive a moral "ought" from facts about what IS. Example: nature is cruel, therefore humans must be cruel — illogical. Hume showed that ethics does not come from science; the "naturalistic fallacy" was named after this problem 200 years later.

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