http://youtu.be/_UzWcWaKo88 Watch on YouTube. This video records Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's somewhat rambling lecture, wherein he discusses a few themes in Hume's ethical work which he deems relevant today. Specifically, Sen wants to advocate for Hume's argument that society's globalization tends to expand its moral sensitivities. We hear that Hume was among the first Continue Reading …
Topic for #45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith
Here's the recorded episode. In Ep. 41, we discussed David Hume's ethics both providing a challenge for any naturalist (meaning one compatible with a modern scientific world-view) ethics--you can't deduce "ought" from "is"--and as providing an approach to moral psychology. In this discussion, we grappled with selections from Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature (1740) and Adam Continue Reading …