ends on our desires and inclinations whether comprehension of those truths will motivate us. Consequently, reason alone cannot yield moral beliefs. In other words, reason plays no role in judging the virtue and vice of actions, but merely interprets the logical effects of the action. Hume claimed that morality ultimately rests upon sentiment, with reason only paving the way for our sensitive judgments by analysis of the moral matter in question.
             Hume further states that moral distinctions cannot be based on reason discovering what is right, wrong, good and bad. Hume says that if moral distinctions were based on relations discovered by reason, then non-reasoning and even inanimate objects would be capable of vice and virtue. In order to illustrate this claim, Hume provides the example of a young tree that over-tops and dest
             ...