Full Idea
If it comes to deciding what intuitions and dispositions to cultivate, we cannot rely on the intuitions themselves, as intuitionists do.
Gist of Idea
You can't use intuitions to decide which intuitions you should cultivate
Source
Richard M. Hare (Universal Prescriptivism [1991], p.461)
Book Reference
'A Companion to Ethics', ed/tr. Singer,Peter [Blackwell 1993], p.461
A Reaction
Makes intuitionists sound a bit dim. Surely Hume identifies dispositions (such as benevolence) which should be cultivated, because they self-evidently improve social life?