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.
1 Hume defines liberty, however, as a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.. 2  Thus, we are free if we can say our will caused our actions. 3  This is called compatibilism.. 4  Note that what Hume has done is argue that this problem in part goes away if we get clear about our concepts.