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Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem

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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 9:42 pm (This post was last modified: April 12, 2014 at 9:45 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Exactly. This isn't a problem, because you can't argue people into valuing something without appealing to something they already value. Value is by definition subjective, and could never be otherwise. The correct response to Hume's Guillotine is not to abandon moral realism, but to abandon derivation of values purely from facts.
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RE: Hume's Guillotine sets up an ethical regress problem - by MindForgedManacle - April 12, 2014 at 9:42 pm

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