CGS HU 201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Solipsism, Moral Sense Theory
10 Aug 2018
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Empiricist--we all derive our ideas and concepts from sensory experience. Works with rationalism-- believing all our truth is understood because we are using what our winds know about knowledge (math and logic) give us reason. Moral distinctions and choices justified by moral ways based on pure reason (rationalist) Doesn"t produce a big truth about the world. We need reason to see things, but we need sentiment to establish how we choose to react. helps us discover and define moral rightness or wrongness. Moral sense theory: sentimentalism, responsive and emotional. Moral judgments: when we weigh and measure and determine the rightness or the wrongness of an action--those are always based on sentiment. We are psychologically inclined to understand causality through knowing the combination of external events. Our minds create causality because we want to see links between things, results. we are inclined to combine two external events to create a sequence to help us understand things.
