id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-iep-utm-edu-6818 David Hume: Moral Philosophy | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .html text/html 16912 961 60 Hume's ethical thought grapples with questions about the relationship between morality and reason, the role of human emotion in thought and action, the nature of moral evaluation, human sociability, and what it means to live a virtuous life. Hume's moral philosophy is found primarily in Book 3 of The Treatise of Human Nature and his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, although further context and explanation of certain concepts discussed in those works can also be found in his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. In the second Enquiry Hume argues that, although our determinations of virtue and vice are based upon an "internal sense or feeling," reason is needed to ascertain the facts required to form an accurate view of the person being evaluated and, thus, is necessary for accurate moral evaluations (EPM 1.9). ./cache/www-iep-utm-edu-6818.html ./txt/www-iep-utm-edu-6818.txt