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Empericists
Emphasize experience (inductive)
True knowledge is based on experience (like Mill)
Skeptic
skeptical of traditional view of reason (and absolute grasp)
Epistemology (study of knowledge)
1. Relations of Ideas - necessarily true (ie math and possibly logic)
2. Matters of Fact and Existence - not necessarily true (ie everything else)
Matters of Fact and Existence
2 types of perceptions
1. Impressions - more lively (first)
ie seeing a red shirt
2. Ideas - less lively (second), are copies of impressions.
ie remembering red shirts
Natural Moral Instinct
We have a moral sense (like touch, sight, etc_ so will get the feeling when we see something happening and know if it's right or wrong
Agreeable feeling = good
Disagreeable feeling = bad
A note on Natural Moral Instinct
We can also be desensitized or born with out it (ie psychopaths or people who see bad things over and over again)
2 Key Concepts
1. Useful
2. Agreeable*
Author
misol
ID
271285
Card Set
Hume Philosophy
Description
Hume ethics philosophy
Updated
4/21/2014, 2:08:07 AM
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