COMM 2273 Lecture 74: AT- NATURALISM

• School: University of Arkansas-Monticello
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 2273
• Professor: Key

Document Summary

First, human beings value certain ends over others. Naturalism must account for the content of these beliefs, but that is impossible because the objects of evaluative thought are not. Things to be found in the natural world at all, nor do valuations ascribe natural properties to their objects. Second, naturalism commits the is/ought fallacy, because it conflates what is descriptively true, with a prescription for action. Naturalism cannot prescribe a course of action, it can merely describe what a natural course of action would be. Third, the good is not always what is normal. Fourth, inanimate objects can"t be blamed for their failure to benefit us as human, they merely exist. In contrast, human beings have two distinct facets: the facts of their existence and what they ought to be.