One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.
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Jacques Monod was a 20th-century French biochemist. Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality