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.
Or it can be understood as virtue theory, where the highest virtue is the arete of virtues (which can be called âtrue justiceâ). Or, it can be understood in terms of the Greatest Happiness theory, where the First Principle of moral philosophy in its âperfectâ form is the arete of moral principles.