PHIL 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Divine Command Theory, Immanuel Kant
1 Mar 2016
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Week 4 - early modern moral theory: hume. Paper #1 due friday february 12, 2016. Hume a treatise of human nature pp. In philosophy the early modern period marks the start of a new era, with a number of important writers and thinkers emerging and making a break with the traditions and assumptions of the. Ancients and medievals: rene descartes, thomas hobbes, david hume, john locke, thomas. Hume on ethics naturalistic views but not teleological like aristotle believes morality is a matter of human nature and that moral judgements are based on our own feelings. Brings forth the theory of sentimentalism which never really adapted in ethical theory but does inspire work by hobbes and kant later in history. This begins a modern movement that looks away from divine command and begins to look at natural and human grounds of morality. Grounds justice in its function to us.
