PHL275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Incest
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Someone resists the temptation to watch the new season of his favourite show and study all evening instead. A calm passion wins over a violent passion. Calm passions resemble in some ways the operation or reason. We confuse the opposition of two kinds of passions with a supposed opposition between reason and passion. How do we distinguish between vice and virtue, right and wrong, pronounce an action blameworthy or praiseworthy? . Is it by means of ideas (reason) or impressions (feeling, sentiment). Moral distintions have an influence over our actions. Certain passions can be unreasonable in a loose sense. Wrong means to attain the object of my passion. Humes: these mistakes do not render someone vicious or the action blameworthy. Mistakes of face vs mistakes of right. Humes: in order for something to count as a mistake of right, we need to first be capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
