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== Post Modernism ==
 
== Post Modernism ==
 
Too often an example of greedy reductionism.
 
Too often an example of greedy reductionism.
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== Ought ==
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Hume's fallacy of the derivation of ought from is still catches most people.  There is no direct ought: there is only what we desire.  We can make consequentialist arguments based on our desires: because we want something, we ought to do something else if we want to get it.
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== Natural Rights ==
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Natural rights were a political trick invented to oppose the idea of rights of kings.  The populace at large didn't have rights of kings, but they certainly could claim to have natural rights.

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