Figs in Winter
May 15, 2022

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Right, and that's where I diverge from Hume. Together with the Stoics, the Epicureans, and modern authors like Philippa Foot, and I don't think there is a divide between is and ought, and think instead that ethics is a type of reasoning about empirical facts. Those are facts derived from human nature, from what objectively improves or hampers human flourishing. So while ethics is not reduced to just a collection of facts (a la Sam Harris, if you will), it is grounded in biological and cultural facts.

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Figs in Winter
Figs in Winter

Written by Figs in Winter

by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.

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