>there's still yet no factual…from which they should Exactly, except not 'factual' but no valid reasoning to do so. From the essay: "For there is no such Fini

>there's still yet no factual…from which they should Exactly, except not 'factual' but no valid reasoning to do so. From the essay: "For there is no such Finis Ultimus [utmost aim] nor Summum Bonum [greatest good] as is spoken of in the books of the old Moral Philosophers." —Thomas Hobbes "It [is] extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values… It is nowhere written that “the good” exists…" —Jean-Paul Sartre "It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." —David Hume >It IS the purchase from which moral statements gain any sort of coherent meaning at all (Since you value X, therefore you should Y). No one is denying that humans use moral statements. It can be the meaning in Moral Nonrealism. It cannot be the meaning in Moral Realism. Here is why, again from the essay: "In suggested approaches to morality, I am surprised to find authors moving from propositions with the usual copula ‘is’ (or ‘is not’) to ones that are connected by ‘ought’ (or ‘ought not’). This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the greatest consequence. For as this ‘ought’ (or ‘ought not’) expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis necessary that it should be pointed out and explained; and at the same time a reason should be given, for how this new relation can be—inconceivably—a deduction from others that are entirely different from it. I am persuaded, that attention to this one small matter will let us see that the definitions of right and wrong are not based on the relations of objects nor can be perceived by reason." —David Hume >I could similarly ask, "Whats so good about God's Nature"? The limitation applies to a non supernatural/supramundane universe. Hence Hume declares the only possibility "The standard of Sentiments [Values] is ultimately derived from that Supreme Being, which bestowed on each being its peculiar nature, and arranged the several classes and orders of existence."