Part IX: Pseudo Ethics

I handed in Part IX today, on schedule, of A New Metaphysics. In the nature of things, this will in due course be seen as a mere draft. It is widely taken for granted today that it is impossible to derive an “ought” from an “is”.  The philosopher David Hume's (supposed) insight has taken hold. Yet what does one do then for value? One grasps for fact. Yet fact cannot provide value. Part IX sketches, I hope, the dynamic. OBSERVATION: This has had a lot to do with theology. At the core of Bishop Lesslie Newbigin's theology lay the realisation that "It is a world of facts without value, and a world of values which have no basis in facts." This affects, in particular, the Theology of Community, which has rubbed off all over the world, without necessarily taking root. (I do not follow Newbigin's approach).