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The Good Life: What We Still Know After the Modern Age

The Good Life: What We Still Know After the Modern Age

Siegel, Charles

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1941667120
ISBN13: 9781941667125
Publisher: Omo Press
Published: Sep 11 2016
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The main tradition of classical philosophy had a clear idea of the good life, based on human flourishing. Modern philosophers rejected this tradition because they believed in the logical principle that we cannot derive ought-statements from is-statements, which makes it impossible to base ethics on human nature.

This book shows that this logical principle is false. You can derive ought-statements from teleological is-statements, statements about function, goal, or purpose.

Philosophers rejected classical ethics not because of a logical problem but because they rejected Aristotle's teleological view of nature. In the seventeenth century, philosophers accepted the new physics, which explained nature on the basis of mechanical causes, not of goals. If nature is not teleological, then it is impossible to base ethics on human nature.

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