This is the partially examined life episode 367 part two.

We've been discussing David Humes and inquiry concerning the principles of morals.

I think we are going to get into the details.

But should we start with this of justice and then political stuff?

Get into the, why is justice unique, or at least a good place to categorically different kind of thing than say, but evidence?

Well, he wants to show that public utility is the sole origin of justice, which we've already discussed in part one.

But the point of starting with this is to show that there's something that we might think is sort of written in abstract principles in the sky, but that we would never have needed to invent if it weren't for certain circumstances.

But what is justice? Is it just giving to that? Yeah. never have needed to invent if it weren't for certain circumstances.

But what is justice? Is it just giving to that?

I feel like we should. Clearly, he read the Republic.

Hurting my enemies and helping my friends. It's the will of the stronger.

He's just talking about property and how Locke and some other folks said property is a very natural thing.

Like, no, no, property is not a natural thing.

It's like, oh, that's just naturally my.

I mean, your hand is naturally yours.

That's attached to you.

But any physical object, anything alienable is not naturally yours.

But it is very useful for us to have that concept. what a great invention private property was. So it's a utility that grounds laws about property, even though they can seem

pretty damn arbitrary when you get down to it of like, oh, I'm allowed to live in this house because

I signed this piece of paper and I wasn't allowed before

and where exactly is the property line?

Like, there's a lot of stuff that, you know, he talks about picky legalisms coming in here.

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