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.
Good and right moral acts, according to the moral theory virtue ethics, do not depend on the consequences of your action nor on doing your duty, but instead arise from being a virtuous person. Virtue ethics (also called virtue theory or value theory) prompts the question of how should a moral person act.