I'm a rapidly aging 25 year old undergraduate student double majoring in Philosophy and Political science with a focus on Ethical and Political philosophy.
My main focus at the moment revolves around the development of an objectively valid ethical system justified entirely by empirically verifiable claims. The system is unique in that it derives objective ethical standards entirely from the logical consequences of individually willed and empirically observable subjective valuations without the need to rely on one's faith in an unverifiable hypothesis regarding the ultimate normative truths of existence such as a theistic faith in God or …
I'm a rapidly aging 25 year old undergraduate student double majoring in Philosophy and Political science with a focus on Ethical and Political philosophy.
My main focus at the moment revolves around the development of an objectively valid ethical system justified entirely by empirically verifiable claims. The system is unique in that it derives objective ethical standards entirely from the logical consequences of individually willed and empirically observable subjective valuations without the need to rely on one's faith in an unverifiable hypothesis regarding the ultimate normative truths of existence such as a theistic faith in God or a nihilistic faith in cosmic meaninglessness.
What started as a 10 page rebuttal of Nietzsche's Ubermensch theory was forced to evolve or die as I worked to diagnose the many fearsome objections which stood in defiance of my efforts. Consequently my still unfinished rebuttal stands in excess of 90 pages; but I'm confident that I've successfully evaded some of the most brutal objections in meta-ethics the most challenging being "Hume's Guillotine" the is-ought problem.
