Hume on Morality Not Derived From Reason

An introduction to Hume's skepticism, specifically against moral systems that profess to be founded on the basis of reason or God. This video introduces Hume's famous contentions that reason is the slave of the passions and that statements of fact do not justify statements of value. These are important issues in ethics relating to theories of obligation and value. Intermediate level.

0:00 Introduction
4:07 Reason not guiding action
8:06 Reason is slave of the passions
14:39 Morality not in relations
23:14 Examples of patricide and incest
28:32 Morality not discoverable from facts
30:12 The is and ought distinction
32:07 Morality from a sentiment
34:40 Criticism