crude vs reasoned judgement
crude - made from a position of ignorance
resond judgement - requires intellectual effort
4.) can we even judge ourselves?
pther cultures provide the means of analysis against which we judge ourselves
the difficulty of defining "culture"
sub cultures? - individuals
Hume - morality is based in "sentiment"
all statements capable of being true or false are 1 of 2 types
1.) relations of ideas
2.) matters of fact
1a.) A statement whose truth/fact can be known independent of prior to experience observation
e.g. all bachelors are unmarried men
logically true
a square has 4 equal sides
The negation implies a contradiction
2a.) A posterior
statements whose true/false can be known after experience/obligation
grass is green
cpntingently true/false
they a grounded in sensation
consider moral assertions

murder is wrong
Hume : universality of feeling : truth aplies to relation of ideas and matters of fact
Racheals: moral truths are actually truths of reason: that is a moral judgement might be true if it is backed by better reasons than the alternatives