Emerson’s ideas
…Emerson was extraordinary man with his own way of thinking that was untraditional for a minister. He established
transcendental club. The members of this club believed that all perception depend on the viewer. The people of those believed in ideas
of Calvinism: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, etc. They believed that God does everything at random, and
there is nothing you can do to be happy. But Emerson rejected those ideas. He stated that when you ask enough questions
(Who I am? For what do I live? You become overwhelming with beauty, because beauty inside us. He believed that chief end of our
existence is good and the perfect, and if we understand this we become godlike. And when we do something evil we lose touch with
God and with beauty. He understood that there are divine laws (the laws of the soul) behind everything and that intuition is inside
the perfection of these laws. So according to Emerson, your true self is the laws of the soul and only when you listen yourself you
can find out who you really are, what is your place in this world, what is your way that can really make you happy. And if you
realize this all universe will help you to follow that way…
Hume’s idea
…For Hume, the central fact about ethics is that moral judgments are formed not by reason alone but by the
sentiment of sympathy. Hume says that reason “is not sufficient alone to produce any moral blame or approbation.” What limits the
role of reason in ethics is that reason makes judgments concerning matters of fact and relations whereas moral judgments of good
and evil are not limited to matters of fact and relations…
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