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Rationalist views claim that right and wrong are based on eternal laws, knowable by reason, that are obligatory on every rational mind. Such views fail because
{ 1 } - it's unclear why these "eternal laws" would motivate us to act one way rather than another.
{ 2 } - they appeal to mysterious ideas (like "objective fittingness") that can't be grounded on our experience.
{ 3 } - we could never know such eternal laws, since they are neither relations of ideas (conceptual truths) nor matters of fact (empirical truths).
{ 4 } - all of the above.
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Rationalist views claim that right and wrong are based on eternal laws, knowable by reason, that are obligatory on every rational mind. Such views fail because
{ 1 } - it's unclear why these "eternal laws" would motivate us to act one way rather than another.
{ 2 } - they appeal to mysterious ideas (like "objective fittingness") that can't be grounded on our experience.
{ 3 } - we could never know such eternal laws, since they are neither relations of ideas (conceptual truths) nor matters of fact (empirical truths).
{ 4 } - all of the above.
Reason is inert, and by itself can't motivate us. But moral judgments motivate us. Hence moral judgments come, not from reason, but from desires and feelings.
Hume also gives the other objections.
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Rationalist views claim that right and wrong are based on eternal laws, knowable by reason, that are obligatory on every rational mind. Such views fail because
{ 1 } - it's unclear why these "eternal laws" would motivate us to act one way rather than another.
{ 2 } - they appeal to mysterious ideas (like "objective fittingness") that can't be grounded on our experience.
{ 3 } - we could never know such eternal laws, since they are neither relations of ideas (conceptual truths) nor matters of fact (empirical truths).
{ 4 } - all of the above.
It's simpler to say that moral judgments just reflect our feelings.
Hume also gives the other objections.
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Rationalist views claim that right and wrong are based on eternal laws, knowable by reason, that are obligatory on every rational mind. Such views fail because
{ 1 } - it's unclear why these "eternal laws" would motivate us to act one way rather than another.
{ 2 } - they appeal to mysterious ideas (like "objective fittingness") that can't be grounded on our experience.
{ 3 } - we could never know such eternal laws, since they are neither relations of ideas (conceptual truths) nor matters of fact (empirical truths).
{ 4 } - all of the above.
It's simpler to say that moral judgments just reflect our feelings.
Hume also gives the other objections.
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Rationalist views claim that right and wrong are based on eternal laws, knowable by reason, that are obligatory on every rational mind. Such views fail because
{ 1 } - it's unclear why these "eternal laws" would motivate us to act one way rather than another.
{ 2 } - they appeal to mysterious ideas (like "objective fittingness") that can't be grounded on our experience.
{ 3 } - we could never know such eternal laws, since they are neither relations of ideas (conceptual truths) nor matters of fact (empirical truths).
{ 4 } - all of the above.
Hume uses many weapons in his attack on rational approaches to ethics.
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