Justice as an artificial virtue in Hume: Elements for a psycho-social theory of action

Pensamiento 64 (239):97-127 (2008)
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In the following pages, our specific aim is to show how Hume’s analysis of justice provides the occasion for the gradual display of some key elements of a psychosocial action theory, which lay the foundations for later social thinking. RESUMEN: En lo que sigue, nuestro objetivo específico es mostrar cómo el análisis que realiza Hume de la justicia proporciona la ocasión para introducir de manera gradual elementos clave para el desarrollo de una teoría psico-social de la acción, presupuesta en buena parte del pensamiento social posterior.

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Ana Marta Gonzalez
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