Re:Is reason the slave of the passions?
by jonathanstrange on Monday May 27, 2019 @05:02AM
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> Very few serious philosophers would disagree with Hume.
Well, "very few" is always in the eye of the beholder, but I'd like to challenge this a little bit. The majority is Humean, I agree with that, but there are a number of non-Humean moral philosophers about moral motivation, for example Scanlon and Shafer-Landau. It's actually an ongoing and long-standing debate and with good arguments for both sides.
The SEP article on moral motivation summarizes part of the debate.[1]
Well, "very few" is always in the eye of the beholder, but I'd like to challenge this a little bit. The majority is Humean, I agree with that, but there are a number of non-Humean moral philosophers about moral motivation, for example Scanlon and Shafer-Landau. It's actually an ongoing and long-standing debate and with good arguments for both sides.
The SEP article on moral motivation summarizes part of the debate.[1]
[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-motivation/#HumVAnt...