You Can't Trust Nature You Know

The first part of the essay really is kind of a skeptical like philosophers have no special expertise when it comes to happiness but also value right he says if we can depend on any principle which we learn from philosophy this I think may be considered as certain and undatted. There is nothing in itself valuable or despicable desirable or hateful beautiful or deformed but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection. This is concef confessively the case with regard to all of the bodily senses but if we examine the matter more accurately we shall find that the same observation holds even when the mind concurs with the body and mingles its sentiment with the exterior appetite. So the basic