An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

In the book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume defends his sympathybased moral sentimentalism by arguing that, we can never make moral judgments based onreason alone.David Hume (1711-1776) was a prominent Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historianwho is best know for his influential system of philosophical scepticism, empiricism andnaturalism.