Exotic Journeys: A Tourist's Guide to Philosophy

brought to you by Ron Yezzi

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Minnesota State University, Mankato

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(Author's Note: The account below, with slight modifications, is taken from Ron Yezzi, Philosophical Problems: The Good Life (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1994), pp. 132-135.)

Topics

David Hume

The Limits of Reason

Moral Sentiments

Benevolence

Hume and Logical Positivism

Controversies: Some Objections and Possible Replies

Creative Excursions

Sources

Positive Answer:

Moral Sentiments

David Hume

One way of establishing that we can know what the good life is rests upon the position that we have an inherent moral sense, or basic moral sentiments, by which we distinguish right from wrong. Here we explore this view through the thought of David Hume.