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Does Hume underestimate reason
Title: Does Hume underestimate reason
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2043 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Does Hume underestimate reason
Does Hume underestimate the importance of reason in moral thinking?
“reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
Hume's moral theory arises out of his belief that reason alone can never cause action. Action is caused by desires or feelings and as reason alone can never cause action, morality is rooted in our feelings. It is necessary, therefore, to look at precisely what arguments he presents in favour of his view …showed first 75 words of 2043 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2043 total…with regard to morality. Yet this was not entirely his purpose. Hume intended to show that reason could not motivate actions at all, and in turn, had no grip on morality. In this area, he would seem to have failed. It remains then, that although Hume is correct in his assertion that morality is not concerned solely with reason, he fails in his ultimate aim due to one fact. Hume does indeed underestimate the importance
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