Sentence examples for the second enquiry from inspiring English sources

In the second Enquiry, Hume continues to oppose moral rationalism, but his arguments against them appear in an appendix.

In neither the Treatise nor the second Enquiry does Hume spend any significant time on how we might learn to acquire new sentiments or alter the ones we have.

In both the Treatise and the second Enquiry, Hume charged rational intuitionists with having no account of why moral judgments, which are the output of reason, should have such an intimate connection with motivation.

What is our concern, however, is to make clear that what Hume aims at, in both the Treatise and the second Enquiry, is to defend the "autonomy" of morality in relation to religion.

The idea of Hume's argument here and elsewhere in his writings (see for instance Dialogue XII of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and appendix IV of the second Enquiry) is that theism, or at least theism of the popular sort that conjoined with "superstitious terrors," degrades individual morality, thereby devaluing human existence.

The doctrine that reason alone is merely the "slave of the passions," i.e., that reason pursues knowledge of abstract and causal relations solely in order to achieve passions' goals and provides no impulse of its own, is defended in the Treatise, but not in the second Enquiry, although in the latter he briefly asserts the doctrine without support.

At any one time, I am at various stages of managing multiple projects across the area; I see new services right through from the first enquiry to completion.

I'd previously contacted the US National Parks Service about this asset of theirs, and come away with the strong impression that it was the first enquiry they had ever received – a pity, as this is a beautiful spot.

One area I'd like to know more about is how Operations Weeting is being handled: despite the evident failings of the first enquiry, their current approach appears far from robust.

But now the good news is that local government minister Nick Raynsford publicly acknowledged the first enquiry's recommendation that, if the council tax is retained, then vital changes are needed to reduce the impact of property revaluation on people with low incomes living in high-value properties.

Hume repeats the case of the missing shade almost verbatim in the first Enquiry.