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Episode 16 – Good, Evil, and Science | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Naturalistic Fallacy and the Fact-Value Dichotomy

Naturalistic reductionism is a metaphysical account of reality or human beings. It takes models of nature developed in the laboratory and blows them up, he says. In such a world without form and finality, what is basis for moral evaluation? David Hume can't see those forms and final causes, so naturalistic fallacy seems hard to oppose,. But it has an implication for ethical evaluation worth discussing with some care.

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