Search Legal Terms and Definitions. preliminary hearing. n. in criminal law, a hearing to determine if a person charged with a felony (a serious crime punishable by a term in the state prison) should be tried for the crime charged, based on whether there is some substantial evidence that he/she committed the crime.
On Hume 's view, the judgments and recommendations of traditional morality arise not from reason, but from a moral sense. As a straightforward matter of fact (discoverable by experience), virtue is always accompanied by a feeling of pleasure, and vice by a feeling of pain.
Virtue is a âconceptâ âConceptsâ are not things they are relationships between thingsâ¦justice and love are examples of other âconceptsâ that do not exist as material objects but rather products of the human mind relating objects to each other.That we âevolvedâ is not a âbeliefâ it is a demonstrable fact.ne example is that someone with virtue displays wisdom, courage, kindness, good manners, courtesy, modesty, generosity, and self-control in their life. They treat others fairly and esteem others highly and value the sanctity of life.