https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/tags/lineage-fitness/Recent content in Lineage Fitness on Philosophie-DelorHugoenFrieder DelorSat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/philosophy/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:38:41 +0200https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/philosophy/<p>This section contains my contributions to philosophy. Its main focus is ethics and metaethics, especially the development of a naturalistic and evolutionary ethics.</p> <p>A central subject of my work is the is-ought problem. I examine why traditional and contemporary ethical theories fail to provide a satisfactory foundation for ethics, and develop a positive reconstruction on that basis.</p> <p>The section also includes foundational work, critical essays, and reviews. Some of these texts use satire. The satirical elements serve to illustrate the arguments, improve accessibility, and provide entertainment. The underlying criticism is nevertheless meant seriously.</p>https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/ethics/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/ethics/<p>This section contains my work on ethics and metaethics. Its central concerns are the foundations of a naturalistic and evolutionary ethics and the solution to the is-ought problem.</p>https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/ethics/hume_is_ought/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/ethics/hume_is_ought/<h1 id="humes-isought-problem-and-its-solution">Hume’s Is–Ought Problem and Its Solution<a class="anchor" href="#humes-isought-problem-and-its-solution" aria-label="Link"></a></h1> <h2 id="is-and-ought">Is and Ought<a class="anchor" href="#is-and-ought" aria-label="Link"></a></h2> <p>David Hume (1739/1978, T 3.1.1.27) observes in the <em>Treatise of Human Nature</em> that moral philosophers often begin by speaking about facts. They write about what is the case, how people act, what properties they possess, or what conditions obtain in the world. Then, within the same argument, an “ought” or “ought not” appears. Hume notes that this transition often occurs without explanation. Texts begin with statements about what is and then move to statements about what ought to be, without explaining what justifies this new claim.</p>https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/critics/sauer_moral/Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/critics/sauer_moral/<h2 id="the-invention-of-good-and-evil-a-world-history-of-morality--how-professor-hanno-sauer-arrives-at-wishful-morality-through-fallacies">The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality – How Professor Hanno Sauer Arrives at Wishful Morality Through Fallacies<a class="anchor" href="#the-invention-of-good-and-evil-a-world-history-of-morality--how-professor-hanno-sauer-arrives-at-wishful-morality-through-fallacies" aria-label="Link"></a></h2> <p>Professor Hanno Sauer (2024), in his book <em>The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality</em>, claims to reconstruct the emergence of morality from evolution, cooperation, and culture in a scientific manner. He promises an objective derivation of how sanctions and norms made us what we are today. The book does not redeem this claim at any point. Instead of an open-ended reconstruction, Sauer engages in extensive cherry-picking among findings and theories in order to support a specific left-progressive moral philosophy. Whatever fits his worldview is elaborated at length; whatever contradicts it is ignored or pushed into psychology.</p>