You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our questions for episode 368 are something like, can reason produce morality, or do we have a moral sense?

And we read selection from David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature from 1739.

We'll also continue from our last episode discussing the end of an inquiry concerning the principles of morals from 1751.

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This is Mark Linsonmeyer in Madison, Wisconsin, guilty of crimes in myself, independent of my

situation with respect to the universe.

This is Seth Paskin, having imagined New Jerusalem but seen Paris in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes All one trying to do whatever gives spectators. imagined New Jerusalem, but seen Paris in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes All one trying to do whatever gives spectators the pleasing sentiment of approbation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey feeling more than judging morality in Madison, Wisconsin.

All right, so I think our last episode gave a pretty good picture of Hume's moral theory.

We didn't get so far as the conclusion of that book, The Enquiry. So we wanted to spend a little

time with that. And there's also an appendix one that was specifically on the role of reason

versus moral sense in determining morality.

That maybe gets a little more technical than we got into.

So I think we wanted to go through that.

Concerning moral sentiment is what that penix is called.

But then Wes also identified for us a few things in the treatise's earlier book.

So we were doing book two of the passions part three of the will and direct passions, only section three of

the influencing motives of the will. So again, it's just can reason motivate the will by

itself, which was very important for morality, right?

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