Concept

Fact–value distinction

Overview

epistemological distinction between statements of fact (positive, descriptive) based on reason and physical observation and statements of value (normative, prescriptive) about ethics and aesthetics, studied via axiology

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Philosophers who discussed Fact–value distinction

• Leo Strauss

Related ideas

• Moral nihilism
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• G. E. Moore
• Philosophy
• Philippa Foot
• John Searle
• John Locke
• Philosophy (journal)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Materialism
• Max Weber
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Leo Strauss
• Aesthetics
• Naturalistic fallacy
• Nature
• A Treatise of Human Nature
• Social science
• Positivism
• Thomas Hobbes
• Arthur Prior
• Aristotelianism
• Value theory
• War

Place in the tradition

Part of German philosophy.

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