Hume [10] says: I cannot forbear adding to these reasonings an observation, which may, perhaps, be found of some importance. In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remark’d, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, ...
It was David Hume, who famously observed that an “ought” cannot be logically derived from an “is”. In his Treatise from 1739 he notes that in all the systems of morality he has seen, the author shifts suddenly from “is” and “is not” to “ought” and “ought not” (for exam...
Bernard,Christopher - 《University of St Andrews》 被引量: 1发表: 1989年 Toward a Humean True Religion: Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Practical Morality His friend David Hume, in his role of secretary to the British ambassador, was also in Paris. Hume's writings, particularly his Histor...
For Hume, a person originally framed to have no concern for his fellow creatures would be a monster, what we would call a psychopath today. Most people in real life gain pleasure from seeing others' happiness and feel uneasy when they are in the presence of their pa...
What did Hume say about happiness? Hume's moral system aims at the happiness of others (without any such formula as “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”) and at the happiness of self. But regard for others accounts for the greater part of morality. ...
See Hume (2000), p. 302, after whom this logical rule is named: “I cannot forbear adding to these reasonings an observation, which may, perhaps, be found of some importance. In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds...
Don’t expect the source of your hurt to be the source of your healing.Closureis an effective plot device in a lot of really lame movies. But there’s no such thing as closure in real life.Life is all about the flow. There aren’t any points where everything comes together and it ...
With the popularity of digital devices such as cell phones and tablets, it is crucial to consider the implications of our digital dependence and the presence of technology in our everyday lives. The Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series seeks to explore the ...
demands. It is precisely in this process of amorality that the capital power has gradually become free from the shackles of social morale, and its behavior has become more and more unscrupulous, eventually leading to enlarging the anti-social nature of capitalism, turning from a stream into a ...
Koppel said, "Every office now has a department of someone who is there to make sure that others in the department don't go around offending one another. We didn't have that 50 years ago. Is that a good thing?" "Oh my God, my sense is there's something wrong, that we're living...