chauvinism

Incoherence and Chauvinism

We saw in last week’s class that Jean Hampton argued that it is not just false, but incoherent to think that all or your reasons have their source in your desires. Since the Humean Theory of Reasons says that all of your reasons do have their source in your desires, that means that the Humean Theory of Reasons cannot possibly be true - it is confused.

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This is the challenge posed and answered in chapter 3 of Slaves of the Passions. For class, read the full chapter and try to answer for yourself how you would resist this answer if you were Hampton. Is there anyone else who we have read this semester who you could recruit as your ally if you were trying to resist Schroeder’s response to Hampton? Who? Why would they make a good ally?