Lexicon of Arguments

 

Stegmüller IV 167
Ethics/Hume: thesis: no feature can be seen in the actions themselves, which would make it possible to distinguish whether they are justified or not.
>Actions.
Cf. >Ethics/Harman.
Stegmüller: but one can even find prescriptive passages in Hume.
IV 243
Ethics/morality/Hume: thesis:
1. Facing scarce resources, people must cooperate in order to survive.
>Life.
2. HumeVsHobbes: all humans own sympathy - would everything be available in abundance, of course, respect to other people's property would be superfluous.
>Sympathy/Hume, >Sympathy.-
IV 245
The key driving force is self-interest.
IV 247
Ethics/morality/Hume: e.g. the two rowers:
1. Pure coordination problem.
2. No one wants to make an effort.
Stabilization of cooperation:
1. only artificial virtue is assumed,
2. there is no verbal communication and
3. only rational egoism. E.g. help at the harvest: the first helps the other. Then then there is a time lag: the second does not help the other -> free riders problem -> sanctions.
IV 283
Reason/morals/ethics/Hume/Stegmüller: reason can never be the motive for or against an action.
>Reason/Hume, >Actions, >Reasons.
Passions and preferences are logically independent of conclusions. Yet, there are practical-rational preferences.
Mackie: also dispassion does not allow a clear view on things.
>Ethics/Mackie.
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Stuhlmann I 64
Ethics/Hume: at its reason moral statements are always required.
>Morals.