Hume's Guillotine

Reblogged from Poesy plus Polemics:

(The Is-Ought Problem)

A philosopher Scotsman, by name DavidHume,

Held recondite principles brooking no room

For systems of ethics derived, with prescription,

From experienced truths cast in rational diction,

Impossible, Hume said, that reason alone

Could deduce right or wrong from what facts may be known,

 

"What ought to be" severed from "what is" near clean,

Impassioned belief the lone tendon between,

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