PHILOS 22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Informal Fallacy
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Lecture 3 hume on reason, passion, morality keep in mind: Hume: part 1 2. 3. 3 the common view is that reason can oppose our passion hes going to try to show that this view is false two things he will be arguing: 1st: on its own, reason can never move us to act. Desires vs. belief desires: aim is to make the world the way we see it in our mind beliefs: aim is to make the content of the belief consistent with the way the world is. The goal of reason is to make sure our beliefs are true desires in uence our will/volition there are two ways of reason: You can only criticize the way they are ef ciently ful lling those desires. What does motivate us is desire premise 3: moral judgements cannot be conclusions of reason. What two claims does hume endeavor to prove? (paragraph 1) (2 marks)
