Hume’s Guillotine and J.R.Searl’s Institutional Approach
Keywords:
Hume, “is-ought” problem, fact, value, action, “is”, “ought”, J. Searle, institutionalismAbstract
The article is focused on institutional approach of J. Searle to resolving the Hume’s “is-ought” problem. Stages of the process of derivation of “ought” from “is” are analyzed by the example of act of promising. The author supports the idea of P. Singer about the necessity of analyzing the “is-ought” problem from the viewpoint of correlation of facts, values and actions.