Philosophy 433		History of Ethics		Darwall	Winter 2000


SHORT PAPER ASSIGNMENT



Write a five page essay in which you critically analyze Hutcheson's arguments for the 
thesis that morality is natural to human beings in the senses that: (a) the motive in 
which moral goodness consists is part of human nature (i.e., in normal human beings it 
develops to some degree under normal conditions) and (b) the human response that 
determines that this motive is morally good is natural (in the same sense).  Assess also 
his claim that this motive is morally good and so, in some sense, a motive we morally 
ought to have.  Say something also about what a Hobbesian should say about this.


	Your papers are due on Wednesday, February 2.