Facts and Values: What’s the Connection?

Exploring the Bridge Between Empirical Truths and Moral Principles

In this episode of “Facts, Values, and Flourishing,” we’ll consider the so-called “is–ought” or “fact–value” dichotomy, the notion that you can’t derive moral principles (“oughts”) from the facts of reality (what “is”). We’ll see how this alleged impossibility supports the popular claim that “If there is no God, anything goes.” And we’ll consider Sam Ha…