PHIL 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Subjectivism
15 May 2017
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It maintains, that morality is determined by sentiment. It defines virtue to be whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation; and vice the contrary. We then proceed to examine a plain matter of fact, to wit, what actions have this influence. We consider all the circumstances, in which these actions agree. And thence endeavour to extract some general observations with regard to these sentiments. (cid:499) What are some possible consequences of hume"s moral position: there is no objective moral truth in ethics. People feel in different ways about what is right and wrong, and there is no higher principle one can appeal to in order to make all people accept one moral standard: there can be no moral disagreement. Four problems with subjectivism (as expressed by hume) An action can be both right (as i judge it) and wrong (as you judge it): subjectivism makes us all morally infallible contradiction. )
