This man stated that Good is pleasure and Evil is pain in his essay Of the Passions.
This man stated that Good is pleasure and Evil is pain in his essay Of the Passions. According to this philosopher, virtues are mental qualities agreeable to the self or others, and therefore celibacy and fasting are useless. This philosopher believed that many writers make claims about what should be based on evidence of what is, leading to the "is-ought" problem, which he attempted to explain with his namesake "fork." He argued that humans can generate ideas without being exposed to the necessary sensory experiences by describing a "Missing Shade of Blue." For 10 points, name this author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a Scottish empiricist.
This man stated that Good is pleasure and Evil is pain in his essay Of the Passions.
David Hume