Passion as a criterion of moral judgment Ethics is the study of human conduct or in other words the study of moral behavior. All human beings use ethics in their daily actions and decisions, but few have the opportunity to delve deeper into the foundation of ethics. When Socrates declared in 399 BC, “The unexplained life is not worth living,” he encouraged man to examine his way of life and his modes of moral decision-making. Ethics aims not only to discover the rules that should govern a moral life, but also the goods that one should aim to acquire during one's life. Ethics aims to explain why and how man acts as he does and to shape his way of living and acting. Some philosophers say that reason is the criterion for making moral judgments, others say that duty and obligation govern moral decisions. The 18th century philosopher David Hume gave a different view of what makes man act the way he does. Hume takes an almost Epicurean position and proclaims that man's passions override reason and direct man's actions and moral judgments. Moral judgments are manifestations of human feelings and passions. Hume states that the passions are the only way to understand morality. The nature of moral values ​​is discovered through passions. Hume rejects the idea that reason is the criterion of moral judgments and bases most of his "Treatise on Human Nature" on the refutation of reason as the basis of moral actions. Hume strongly opposes the idea that moral judgments are the conclusions of reason. The role of reason in relation to moral judgments must be only in relation to the passions. Reason must be a slave to man's passions. Reason is to help man find his moral obligations and duties, but reason does not produce or act on the basis of moral obligations or duties; man's passions impel us to act. Passion is the criterion of all moral judgments because there are no absolute moral values. Moral values ​​differ from person to person because they are based on human experience. Passions, as well as moral judgments, exist for every man. You can't tell someone else that what they're feeling is wrong or unreasonable. It's a personal experience and no one can judge one's feelings or feelings. Since reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood, reason cannot be middle of paper ......r to experience and, without regard to the situation, contradicts the experimental/situational approach of Hume the passions governing morality. decisions. Hume's idea of ​​the passions depends to a large extent on a man's previous life experiences. Kant believes that happiness and morality are not the same thing. Hume would argue that man may have a duty to be happy, but that the degree of happiness cannot be judged morally. It is not true that the happier we are, the more moral we are. Hume argued in his Treatise that reason does not influence the will, but Kant says that reason influences the will, but does not guide actions. Hume's position on the passions governing moral judgments fits well with today's society. Socrates and Plato may have written about what was true in their society, but their positions that reasoning is the criterion for moral actions are no longer valid in the 20th century. Humans are spontaneous and emotional. They act for their own good, for their own emotional good in the moment. In today's fast-paced world, few people stop to reason about their actions...