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    Society, culture, civilization, the world?

    I've noticed an inordinate number of references to us and we/human beings/society/culture/the world today. Why "we" do things, why "the world" doesn't do things, where "society" is going, what "human beings" are about, etc., etc.... Here's my question: Doesn't it seem, sometimes, that people...
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    hume argues that we determine whether a particular character trait is a

    Hume's idea was that a virtue is something everyone agrees on and that everyone agrees on it because it was useful. A kind of "no thinking required" approach to morality. "You can't go wrong if you simply follow the crowd". Of course "everyone", to someone in 18th century Europe, was pretty...
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    hume argues that we determine whether a particular character trait is a

    Hume's idea was that a virtue is something everyone agrees on and that everyone agrees on it because it was useful. A kind of "no thinking required" approach to morality. "You can't go wrong if you simply follow the crowd". Of course "everyone", to someone in 18th century Europe, was pretty...
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