PREVIEW-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith

Discussing parts of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1740) and Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). Where do we get our moral ideas? Hume and Smith both thought that we get them by reflecting on our own moral judgments and on how we and others (including imaginary, hypothesized others) in turn judge those judgments. We lay out the differences between these two gents and discuss whether their views constitute an actual moral theory or just a descriptive enterprise. With guest Getty Lustila. Looking for the full Citizen version? The post PREVIEW-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.