This is a long topic — but to give a one line slogan, what I would say is the following: “IS = OUGHT” In other words, reality does not distinguish between the way we live and the way things are. While one can make a distinction between the two, the separation between what is and what one should do is an abstraction (admittedly, one with a pragmatic value) that has no ultimate truth attached to it. From this slogan, it also follows that the abstract pursuit of knowledge (that academia stands for) is based on a fundamental metaphysical flaw, the flaw of the “objective stance”, of individuals seeing the world as it supposedly is, but from afar. The obvious flaw, is that the objective stance is based on a theory of is, not what is actually IS.
Is and Ought
Is and Ought
Is and Ought
This is a long topic — but to give a one line slogan, what I would say is the following: “IS = OUGHT” In other words, reality does not distinguish between the way we live and the way things are. While one can make a distinction between the two, the separation between what is and what one should do is an abstraction (admittedly, one with a pragmatic value) that has no ultimate truth attached to it. From this slogan, it also follows that the abstract pursuit of knowledge (that academia stands for) is based on a fundamental metaphysical flaw, the flaw of the “objective stance”, of individuals seeing the world as it supposedly is, but from afar. The obvious flaw, is that the objective stance is based on a theory of is, not what is actually IS.