This blog deals with philosophy, with a focus on ethics, critical rationalism, and metaethics.
At its center are book reviews, critiques of ethical schools, the is-ought problem, and a prescriptive evolutionary ethics based on critical rationalism.
Many texts are critical, some are satirical, and all are meant seriously.
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Why happiness and the minimization of suffering fail as ultimate moral goals, and how the is–ought problem can be solved through an evolutionary reconstruction.
The article explains the is–ought problem and Hume’s proposed solution. It shows why this and other approaches fail, then outlines the solution. The detailed solution can be found in the paper at the end of the article.
Why I would start with neither the classics nor well-known contemporary works, even though they have their place on the list. And where I would recommend starting instead and why there in particular.
A critique of Hanno Sauer’s The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality: cherry-picking instead of scientific reconstruction, false game-theoretical foundations, a utopian basic attitude, and the contradiction to the evolutionary solution of the is-ought problem.
Why Kant needs acausal free will, why synthetic a priori judgments are impossible, and why the supposed champion of Enlightenment had to suspend knowledge to make room for faith.