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.
Definition of moral for Students. 1  1 : the lesson to be learned from a story or experience. 2  2 morals plural : ways of behaving : moral conduct They have a high standard of morals. 3  3 morals plural : teachings or rules of right behavior.