PHL275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tl;Dr, Practical Reason, Hypothetical Imperative
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Believes our acions are all moivated by our self interest. There is no common rule for good and evil. That each persons good is what they desire. In the state of nature, there is no jusice, no property. Hume"s main two points: reason alone cannot be the moive to any acion of the will, reason can never oppose passion in the direcion of the will. Experience cannot be the source of knowledge of what we must or ought to do. There must be a fundamental principle of morality(or a way of ordering compeing principles) The principle of uility is oten implicitly appealed to, and it is responsible for any kind of consistency we ind in ethical behaviour. Hume points out that reasoning is useful to show certain things we can care about. But reason itself cannot moivate us on our own. Unreasonable passion (passion of non existent things such as waning to ride a unicorn)
