PHL244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Thought Experiment, Open-Question Argument, Rolling Paper
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Human nature: week 7; hume"s second enquiry (lecture 2 of 2) It"s sometimes difficult to read philosophical writings, but hume"s enquiry of morals flows extremely smooth. It also happens to be the work he is most proud of. The second enquiry - principles of morals and human nature (contrasts nicely with the first enquiry. ) Let"s try to reconstruct what the distinction between the two parts of human nature (investigated by these two enquiries) might be. understanding can be defined as a cluster of faculties through exercising what we know. Reason is used in a broad sense sometimes by hume. There is sometimes reason concerning: relations of ideas, relations concerning matters of facts, the thinking of relations of ideas. Hume"s description of reason in the narrow sense (all of our relations are based on cause and effect) is not rational. Hume"s main idea in the first enquiry, or human understanding, was that we should apply.
