"“'Information does not produce imperatives”'. And, therefore, it is not logically possible to move from being to ought to be. This, in short, is the law of Hume, the great division between indicative assertions and prescriptive assertions, between facts and values. This law is a death sentence for natural law and tells us that values are not based on science: they are based on our “choices of conscience”. (p. 62)"
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Dario Antiseri
Dario Antiseri (9 January 1940 – 12 February 2026) was an Italian philosopher and essayist.
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