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Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem
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RE: Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem
April 12, 2014 at 9:32 pm (This post was last modified: April 12, 2014 at 9:34 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 12, 2014 at 9:29 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: So, I could cross the is-ought gap fairly straightforwardly via goal-directedness. For example:

If I want to win a race, then I ought to run the fastest.

Isn't that still subjective? Whether you ought to run fast will depend on who is asked and what they want.

Regress problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_problem
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RE: Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem - by Coffee Jesus - April 12, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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