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🗓️ 2 August 2025
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0:00.0 | So one of the biggest challenges in philosophy, and I talk about this, of course, in my free book, |
0:05.2 | University Preferable Behavior, A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics, is the issue and challenge of |
0:11.6 | the is-aught dichotomy, the facts and values. So very briefly, the facts and values dichotomy |
0:19.2 | is that we cannot get an aught from an is. |
0:23.2 | We cannot say that it is wrong to murder just because if you kill someone, they die. |
0:29.9 | I mean, if you kill someone, they die. |
0:31.6 | If you deprive them of oxygen or cut off their head or something like that, then they die. |
0:36.1 | That is incontrovertible fact. |
0:38.7 | Now, where do you get the ought, the should? Now, of course, religion says, well, you get the |
0:42.6 | or the should from the, from God, right? God commands this in the, right? So, how does philosophy |
0:53.9 | answer that in the absence of the aught? |
0:57.6 | Now, one thing that's interesting is that you never see the is-aught dichotomy people. |
1:03.3 | We'll call them a humeons, since it was David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who first formulated this |
1:08.9 | in the way that we currently understand it, so we'll call them the Humians. So the Humians never say this except with regards to morality. |
1:19.9 | So the Humians don't organize big protests and marches saying, |
1:25.7 | all laws are immoral and unjust because you can't get an aught |
1:29.2 | from an ears or you you shouldn't have any laws because the laws of nature do not give rise to |
1:37.3 | the laws of man the fact of reality do not give rise to the ethics of morality you never see that that. Never do that. When someone says to someone |
1:48.0 | else, oh, you're a Nazi, the Humians never en masse say, well, you can't say that. It's bad, |
1:57.8 | because there's nothing in reality that says your slur is negative or bad. |
2:05.9 | If someone's a white supremacist or whatever it is, right, whatever negative term, |
2:12.2 | the Humians never say, well, you can't get an aught from an is, |
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