Top Highlights

• getting a conclusion that something is morally wrong requires you to have a reason why it is morally wrong. If your only reasons are describing the facts, they can’t justify a conclusion about whether those facts are good or bad.
• You must choose to value truth, instead of accepting its value as a fact.
• Statements assert a certain state of affairs. That is why they are considered either true or false in a way that questions, commands and other types of sentences aren’t.
• The first part of this book is about value. We can never get true judgements about what is good or bad or evil. The only guidance we receive is from ourselves. So everything is permitted.
• The second part of this book is about reason. We can never know whether our statements correspond to some objective reality. We know nothing. So nothing is true.