Value Fundamentalism: There are fundamental facts—as basic as the laws of physics or the axioms of mathematics—about what kinds of things are better and worse, and about how people ought to behave. If you can’t get facts about value from other kinds of facts, then the value facts—if there are any—must be primitive facts in their own right. Perhaps, e.g., it is just a fundamental fact about reality that pleasure is good and pain is bad, or that sentient beings ought to be treated with respect. Value Nihilism: There are no facts about better or worse, or about what ought to be done. In other
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