ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2015
The various interpretations of the naturalistic fallacy are, in fact, quite easily flipped
on their heads and retorted back as “supernaturalistic fallacies.” In a universe with no
evidence of supernatural intervention, where else do morals (or anything for that matter) come from but from nature? As Charles Pigden wrote:
[T]here is no need for naturalists to evade the arguments of Moore and
Hume…Insofar as they are valid, Hume’s arguments, and Moore’s too, are compatible with naturalism. Formal attempts to refute naturalism having failed, it remains a live opti ۋ