PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empiricism, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Universalizability
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Let"s talk about what we can see, hear, touch, etc. Can"t think your feelings away but you can feel your feelings away. Empiricism- you can know what"s right or wrong (and also true or false) from using your sense alone. Sentiments and passions: inner sensations, immediate, can"t be wrong. Ethics is a matter of likes and dislikes. What we like is good, what we dislike is bad. The feelings that you have is not an ethically good or bad thing, it"s just a fact that you have them. Is/ought-we cannot reason from what is the case to what ought to be the case. The assumption is made that because things are a certain way, they should always be that way. Opposers of hume says our feelings are limited by our language. We think things are good or bad based on how they affect our body.