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.
morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct. 1  quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare. 2  righteousness - adhering to moral principles. 3  rightness - according with conscience or morality.