Hume's Moral Distinctions

Hume’s moral theory comes from of his belief that reason alone can never cause action. Action is caused by desires or feelings and as reason alone can never cause action, morality is rooted in our feelings. Hume was most concerned with people’s actions, since he believed that their actions causally followed their sentiments and desires. In this way, reason is incapable of motivating an action. According to Hume, reason cannot fuel an action …showed first 75 words of 1428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1428 total…against a multiple murder of many women. In conclusion, Hume does succeed in proving that reason is not solely important with regard to morality. Yet this was not entirely his purpose. Hume intended to show that reason could not motivate actions at all, and in turn, had no grip on morality. In this area, he would seem to have failed. Hume is therefore correct in his assertion that morality is not concerned solely with reason.