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- Instead of basing morality on religious and divine sources of authority, Hume seeks an empirical theory of morality grounded on observation of human nature.
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Oct 29, 2004 · Hume’s position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist theory of the mind, is best known for asserting four theses: (1) Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is the “slave of the passions” (see Section 3) (2) Moral distinctions are not derived from reason (see Section 4).
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Situates Hume’s moral theory within the context of his predecessors and successors and provides critical discussion of the main doctrines of Hume’s ethical thought: Hume’s anti-rationalism, sentimentalism, and a detailed discussion and critique of Hume’s artificial-natural virtue distinction.
Nicholas Capaldi (David Hume: The Newtonian Philosopher, Boston, 1975, p. 161) takes the descriptivist position that our moral judgments say what sentiments an informed spectator would have.
He says that Hume did not even hope to offer a moral theory, properly speaking, because his intention was merely descriptive: to catalog and file humanity’s moral responses to phenomena.
Oct 25, 2017 · Introduces the relevant elements of Hume’s epistemology and metaphysics and theory of the passions, followed by extensive discussions of Hume’s critique of moral rationalism, his account of the virtues, and his theory of moral judgment.
Ethics. The virtues. Hume takes it to be agreed that moral judgment is primarily a judgment about human character traits, a recognition of ‘virtues’ and ‘vices’ (see Virtues and vices). He has some controversial views both about what enlightened moral judges will and will not include in their lists of virtues, and about how they do their judging.
Hume's attention to diversity in evaluative outlook in his more mature position takes seriously the relation between moral authority and public debate. KEY WORDS: common point of view, David Hume, moral judgment, moral sentiment, sentiment-based ethics, standard of virtue, virtue.
