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17th/18th Century Philosophy > 17th/18th Century British Philosophy > David Hume > Hume: Value Theory
Hume: Value Theory
Edited by Margaret Watkins (Saint Vincent College)
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| Summary | Hume's ethics emphasizes our common humanity and our capacity to develop moral sensibilities in response to varying circumstances. He argues that moral distinctions arise from our sympathizing with the effects of character traits on those who have them and the people they interact with. The resulting judgments can have intersubjective validity both because they are rooted in common human nature, and because we can correct our sentimental responses by taking up a "general point of view" in place of a more partial perspective. Hume's aesthetics and politics also reflect the idea that corrected and cultivated passions provide a basis for sound normative judgments. He argues that discerning critics can provide a standard of taste, and that such taste is a significant aspect of human life and character. Although various political parties have claimed him as a supporter, Hume contends that philosophers should be unpartisan. He argues against both Lockean and Hobbesian contract theories and limits the right to resist sovereigns to extreme cases. |
| Key works | Hume's Treatise of Human Nature contains his initial exposition of his theory of the passions and morals. He later published an edited account of the former in A Dissertation on the Passions. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is Hume's mature statement of his moral theory and the work that he believed to be his best. Although the above works include some material relevant to his aesthetics and political philosophy, the Essays, Moral, Political and Literary contain lengthier discussions of these aspects of Hume's thought. Also relevant, particularly to Hume's political views, is his History of England. The Clarendon Press has published critical editions of the Treatise (Norton & Norton 2007), the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Beauchamp 1998), and the Dissertation on the Passions (together with The Natural History of Religion) (Hume 2007). Liberty Fund offers editions of both the Essays (Miller 1987) and History of England (Todd 1983). |
| Introductions | Norton & Taylor 1993 and Radcliffe 2008 include many helpful articles that could serve as introductions to Hume's ethics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy. Lists of the many book-length treatments of Hume's ethics and politics are available online at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Zalta 2012, open-access) and The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy (Craig 1996, subscription required). Townsend 2001 is notable as a comprehensive study of Hume's aesthetics. Árdal 1966 is a classic treatment of Hume's theory of the passions. |
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- Hume on Characters, Virtues, and “Durable Principles of the Mind”.James Chamberlain - forthcoming - Hume Studies.Hume is widely understood to believe that all virtues and vices are “durable principles of the mind,” and that durable principles of the mind are character traits. Several scholars therefore read him as a virtue ethicist. I argue that we should reject all such interpretations. I argue that Hume allows that some virtues and vices are simply single perceptions, such as a motivationally strong desire to help a stranger or to murder someone. Therefore, I argue, we should not read him (...)
- Philosophie et esthétique chez David Hume.Olivier Brunet - 1964 - Paris: A.-G. Nizet.Les fondements de l'esthétique de Hume.--Les grands problèmes.
- Hume’s General Point of View and Conflict Resolution - Beyond the Limits of Sympathy -. 박수환 - 2024 - CHUL HAK SA SANG - Journal of Philosophical Ideas 94 (94):31-55.이 논문의 목적은 데이비드 흄의 일반적 관점을 도덕적 문제 해결을 위한 방법론으로서 정당화하는 것이다. 그것은 자연주의적 구도에서 도덕적 문제 해결을 위한 방법론으로 기능할 수 있다. 이를 위해 본 논문은 다음과 같이 전개될 것이다. 먼저 흄의 윤리학에서 공감이 어떠한 기제이며, 그것이 어떠한 방식으로 도덕적 판단을 형성하는지 설명한다. 공감은 타인이 경험하는 고통이나 즐거움을 간접적으로 경험할 수 있게 하는 심리적 기제이다. 이러한 공감을 통하여 우리는 타인에게 즐거움과 효용을 가져다주는 것에 찬동의 감정을 가지며, 고통과 불쾌함을 불러오는 대상에게 비난의 감정을 느낀다. 다음으로 교정되지 않는 공감의 (...)
- David Hume on Suicide and the Value of Human Life: A European Legacy.Ton Vink - 2024 - The European Legacy 29 (7):748-766.This essay discusses Hume’s views on suicide and the value of life, also with an eye to their relevance to the present debate on euthanasia. I will first take a look at some of the more personal remarks Hume made in his letters on these subjects and the role they played in his own life. Next I will discuss his essay “Of Suicide” and look at what Hume aimed at with this, in his day certainly controversial, essay. For further clarification (...)
- Why Hume’s Censure of the Monkish Virtues Is Not Question-Begging.Jennifer Welchman & Ronald Wilburn - 2024 - The European Legacy 29 (7):767-780.Some consider Hume’s denunciation of what he calls the “monkish virtues” an unwarranted attack, redolent of an anticlerical bias. Hume rejects these virtues as antithetical to his own conception of happiness, so the complaint goes, without considering the possibility that when judged from the monkish point of view, they are both useful and agreeable. Only prejudice could explain such blatant question-begging. We argue, to the contrary, that when one reads Hume’s critique in light of his views on natural religion, it (...)
- Hume on the Self and Personal Identity ed. by Dan O'Brien (review).Bridger Ehli - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (2):377-380.This is an engaging collection of essays on a central topic in Hume’s philosophy. Perhaps Hume’s best-known contribution to the philosophy of the self is his denial, in section 1.4.6 of the Treatise, “Of personal identity,” of the existence of a simple, enduring self that is accessible by reflection. But as his distinction between personal identity “as it regards our thought or imagination” and personal identity “as it regards our passions or the concern we take for ourselves” suggests, he has (...)
- Aesthetic Taste and Moral Sentiment in Hume and Mengzi.Dobin Choi - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (2):331-349.I examine Hume’s and Mengzi’s reliance on aesthetic and moral taste in their sentiment-based theories of virtue. Their views on taste seem to conflict. In his essay “Of the Standard of Taste,” Hume observes that people’s taste sentiments appear to vary, but he seeks a standard that can reconcile them. In contrast, relying on the uniformity of aesthetic taste, Mengzi argues that humans, by nature, share a universal taste toward morality. I argue that the apparent contrast in the two philosophers’ (...)
- Ritual, Tradition, and Culture: Reading Hume in Light of Classical Confucianism.Rico Vitz - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (2):315-330.In this paper, I analyze the relationship between Hume’s moral philosophy and a key aspect of classical Confucianism—namely, the concept of _lĭ_ (禮), which refers both to the virtue of ritual propriety and to rituals themselves. I argue not only that Hume employs conceptual correlates to each of these two aspects of _lĭ_ (禮), but also that he employs them in ways that have a similar, distinctively normative role in the process of moral formation. I illustrate these points by elucidating (...)
- Spirits for the Age: Hume, Rousseau and the quarrel concerning the progress of the arts and sciences.Gabriel Guedes Rossatti - 2013 - Filosofia Unisinos 14 (3).Long before David Hume (1711-1776) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712- 1778) personally met each other, with disastrous consequences for both, in late 1765-early 1766, they had developed quite different views regarding one of the most important questions present throughout different contexts in 18th century Europe, viz. the question concerning the progress of the arts and sciences. Indeed, the question was as broad as it was important for it had to do with the very foundations of modernity, and more particularly with the (...)
- As mulheres no pensamento de Hume: uma reconsideração.Marcos Balieiro - 2024 - Discurso 54 (2):148-164.Examinarei a maneira como as mulheres são representadas na obra de David Hume. Inicialmente, empreenderei uma comparação entre ensaios como “Of Essay Writing” e “Of the Study of History” e outros textos do período, mostrando que Hume se refere às mulheres de maneira bastante próxima das concepções sexistas da época. Em seguida, mostrarei que o modelo de polidez defendido pelo autor, influenciado pelas noções de galanteria, relega as mulheres a uma condição inferior. Finalmente, mostrarei que o sexismo expressado pelo autor (...)
- (1 other version)Historical dictionary of Hume's philosophy.Angela Michelle Coventry - 2019 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by Kenneth R. Merrill.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries covering key terms, as well as brief discussions of Hume's major works and of some of his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
- Hume, teleology and the "science of man".Lorenzo Greco & Dan O'Brien - 2019 - In William Gibson, Dan O'Brien & Marius Turda, Teleology and Modernity. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation
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- (1 other version)The English philosophers: from Bacon to Mill.Edwin A. Burtt - 1939 - New York,: The Modern library.Introduction by E. A. Burtt.--Bibliography (p. xxiii-xxiv)--Bacon, Francis. The great instauration. Novum organum.--Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.--Locke, John. An essay concerning human understanding. An essay concerning the true original, extent, and end of civil government.--Berkeley, George. A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge.--Hume, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. Dialogues concerning natural religion.--Gay, John. Concerning the fundamental principle of virtue or morality.--Bentham, Jeremy. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.--Mill, James. Government.--Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism. On liberty.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hume et Smith : la critique du rationalisme moral.Abdoulaye Ba - 2012 - le Cahier Philosophique D’Afrique. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 1 (1):113-123.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)The moral philosophy of David Hume.R. David Broiles - 1964 - The Hague,: M. Nijhoff.This work is primarily concerned with Hume's arguments concerning the respective roles of reason and passion in moral decisions. Thus, the major part of the work deals with section I of Part I of Book III of the Treatise, where Hume argues that moral distinctions are not derived from reason. But in discussing this section, I have had to take into account most ofthe other sections of Book III, and some important ones from Book II of the Treatise and the (...)
- Hume and ‘is’ and ‘ought’: new essays.Charles Pigden (ed.) - 2010 - Palgrave-Macmillan.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hume’s moral psychology.Terence Penelhum - 1993 - In David Fate Norton & Jacqueline Taylor, The Cambridge Companion to Hume. New York: Cambridge University Press.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Reason and conduct in Hume and his predecessors.Stanley Tweyman - 1974 - The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.Can reason play a significant role in making moral distinctions and in generating moral precepts? In this book I attempt to provide Hume's answers to these questions in the light of his employment of the 'Experimen tal Method', his doctrine of perceptions, and his analysis of reason. In addition to this, attention is paid to some of Hume's rationalist predeces sors - most notably, Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston - in order to assess Hume's critique of the rationalists. Regarding the (...)
- A Defense of Humean Property Theory.Ira K. Lindsay - 2021 - Legal Theory 27 (1):36-69.Two rival approaches to property rights dominate contemporary political philosophy: Lockean natural rights and egalitarian theories of distributive justice. This article defends a third approach, which can be traced to the work of David Hume. Unlike Lockean rights, Humean property rights are not grounded in pre-institutional moral entitlements. In contrast to the egalitarian approach, which begins with highly abstract principles of distributive justice, Humean theory starts with simple property conventions and shows how more complex institutions can be justified against a (...)
- La philosophie des passions chez David Hume.Jean Pierre Cléro - 1985 - Paris: Klincksieck.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Warum Humes Motivationsargument dem Non-Kognitivismus nicht helfen kann.Daniel Eggers - 2024 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 78 (3):361-384.In the modern metaethical debate, the term 'non-cognitivism' is often used to describe a claim in moral psychology: the claim that moral judgments are constituted by desire-like mental states rather than beliefs. An argument tradi- tionally employed in defences of non-cognitivism is the 'motivation argument' which can be traced back to David Hume. The motivation argument combines the idea that moral judgments are motivationally efficacious states of mind with the idea that beliefs are incapable of exerting motivational force. The aim (...)
- Hume on Race and Slavery.Alan Bailey - 2024 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 22 (2):103-128.The views on race expressed by Hume in a footnote appended to his essay ‘Of National Characters’ seem so egregiously misguided that the suspicion has developed among some commentators that his fundamental philosophical outlook may be inextricably intertwined with a host of deeply pejorative racist assumptions that serve to encourage a pervasive pattern of exploitative and oppressive actions directed against people of colour. This paper, in contrast, argues that predominant thrust of Hume’s account of human nature is towards emphasizing the (...)
- Resonating strings: understanding the transition from Hume’s Treatise to Second Enquiry.Lauren Kopajtic - 2024 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-29.What, if anything, changes between Hume's moral theory as presented in the Treatise of Human Nature and then in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals? This question has received increased attention, especially focused on Hume's presentation of sympathy and humanity, and the connection of those principles to Hume's account of moral sentiments. While there is a strong consensus that Hume is making important stylistic changes to the presentation of his views, scholars are divided on the question of whether there (...)
- (1 other version)Hume on decisions, convention, and justice.Peter Vanderschraaf & Andrew Valls - 2018 - In David Hume, David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society. New Haven [Connecticut]: Yale University Press.
- (1 other version)Political science and political theory in Hume's essays.Frederick G. Whelan - 2018 - In David Hume, David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society. New Haven [Connecticut]: Yale University Press.
- (1 other version)How Hume influenced contemporary moral philosophy.Elizabeth S. Radcliffe - 2018 - In David Hume, David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society. New Haven [Connecticut]: Yale University Press.
- Character and causation: Hume's philosophy of action.Constantine Sandis - 2018 - New York: Taylor & Francis.In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis showcases Hume's interconnected views on action and its causes by situating them within a wider vision of our human understanding of personal identity, causation, freedom, historical explanation, and morality. In so doing, he also relates key aspects of the emerging picture to contemporary concerns (...)
- Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide.Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.) - forthcoming - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.This collection contains fourteen critical essays on Hume's *A Treatise of Human Nature*, plus an Introduction: 1 The Association of Ideas in Hume’s Treatise (John P. Wright), 2 Methodizing Hume’s Metaphysics (Donald L. M. Baxter), 3 Hume on Belief (Jennifer Smalligan Marǔsić), 4 “All the Logic I think Proper to Employ”: Hume’s Rules by which to Judge of Causes and Effects (Hsueh Qu), 5 Imagining the Unseen: The External World of Hume’s Treatise (Angela Coventry), 6 The Updating Problem for Hume’s (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hume e o debate contempor'neo sobre as razões motivantes.André Chagas Ferreira de Souza - 2023 - Educação E Filosofia 37 (80):899-932.Resumo: Este artigo busca colocar a filosofia de David Hume diante de algumas teorias contemporâneas a respeito do tema das razões para agir ou motivantes. Há certa dificuldade em se afirmar que Hume aborda as razões motivantes, um conceito contemporâneo voltado a explicar aquilo que efetivamente impele um agente e referente ao lugar do desejo e da crença. Há dois grupos, intitulados respectivamente como humeanos e não-humeanos, de modo que para o primeiro, supostamente mais alinhado a Hume, o desejo tem (...)
- Re-evaluating the Principle of Virtuous Motives: Abilities, Justice, and the Concept of Natural Virtue.Xiao Qi - forthcoming - Hume Studies.Hume claims in the Treatise that all virtuous actions derive their moral merit only from virtuous motives. Many scholars regard this statement as a universal axiom in Hume’s moral theory, and others read it as applying to all natural or non-artificial virtues. This paper challenges both of these readings. It argues that Hume does not endorse this statement universally since many virtuous qualities in his catalogue are not characterized by motives, and that he does not need to endorse it given (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hume and Kant on imaginative resistance.Emine Hande Tuna - 2024 - European Journal of Philosophy 32 (2):342-352.The topic of imaginative resistance attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent years. Yet, with a few exceptions, no historical investigation of the phenomenon has been carried out. This paper amends this gap in the literature by constructing a Humean and a Kantian explanation. The main contributions of this historical analysis to this debate are to make room for emotions in explanations of resistance reactions and to upset the polarization between rival accounts by suggesting that our possible responses to morally flawed (...)
- Hume on well-being (Proceedings of the CAPE International Workshops, 2013. Part I: The CAPE International Conference “Ethics and Well-being”).Seiyu Hayashi - 2014 - CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy and Ethics Series 2:45-53.9th and 10th Nov. 2013 at Kyoto University. Organizers: Takeshi Sato and Shunsuke Sugimoto.
- Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe, by John Skorupski.David O. Brink - 2024 - Mind 133 (530):603-610.
- Mandeville’s Moralists: Hume, Smith, and the Framing of Moral Virtue.Jack C. Byham - 2024 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 22 (1):1-23.Bernard Mandeville’s theory of morality – ‘private vices, public benefits’ – provides a frame for comparing Adam Smith and David Hume on utility. Mandeville held that vice, not virtue, is useful for society. For him, the private and public good do not align. What is bad for individuals is often beneficial for society and vice versa. To counter Mandeville’s rhetoric and show the attractiveness of virtue, Hume places the principle of utility at the center of his An Enquiry concerning the (...)
- The structure of Hume’s historical thought before the History of England.Pedro Faria - 2024 - Intellectual History Review 34 (2):365-387.David Hume’s historical thought was shaped before he even began writing the History of Great Britain in 1752. This article shows how Hume developed his historical thought in an attempt to combine two historical structures: the natural-jurisprudential conjectural history of the Treatise of Human Nature and the early eighteenth-century historical narratives of modern Europe that featured in his Essays. The Treatise’s conjectural history used the developmental categories “rude” and “civilised” to explain the origins of justice, government and the moral sentiment. (...)
- Hume’s Theory of Moral Judgment in Light of His Explanatory Project.Avital Hazony Levi - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (1):77-100.In this paper, I argue that Hume’s account of moral judgment is best understood if it is read in light of Hume’s explanatory project. I first lay out the textual support to show that Hume’s account of justice in the Treatise includes both approval of a motive that gives rise to the virtue of justice, and approval of a system of conduct, irrespective of a motive. I then argue that we can allow for such plurality in Hume’s theory of moral (...)
- Hume on Self-Government and Strength of Mind.Albert Cotugno - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (1):53-75.Throughout his writings, Hume extols the benefits of an attribute he calls “Strength of Mind,” which he defines as the “prevalence of the calm passions over the violent” (T 2.3.3.10). But there is some question as to how he thought a person could attain this important trait. Contemporary scholars have committed Hume to the view that only indirect and social methods, such as state punishment or sympathetic pressure, could effectively cultivate it. Yet a closer examination of Hume’s corpus reveals a (...)
- Hume’s Hedonism.Roger Crisp - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (1):35-51.This paper seeks critically to elucidate Hume’s views on pleasure and the good, in particular his evaluative hedonism, and to show that evaluative hedonism is in certain respects at least as significant a component of his philosophical ethics as sentimentalism. The first section explains his notion of pleasure, and how it is, in an important sense, prior to desire. The following two sections show how this conception of pleasure and its relation to desire leads Hume to accept evaluative hedonism, as (...)
- Alcali and acid, oil and vinegar : Hume on contrary passions.Elizabeth S. Radcliffe - 2017 - In Alix Cohen & Robert Stern, Thinking About the Emotions: A Philosophical History. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hume on religion in the Enquiry concerning the principles of morals.Lorne Falkenstein - 2021 - In Esther Engels Kroeker & Willem Lemmens, Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals : A Critical Guide. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Ethics: a quick immersion.Michael Slote - 2023 - New York: Tibidabo Publishing.This introduction treats the field of ethics in a new way. The main topic is normative ethics and in particular the ethics of moral right and wrong, and the emphasis is on the recently highlighted division or conflict between ethical rationalism and moral sentimentalism. Rationalism treats moral judgment and motivation as a matter of rational judgment, and its main practitioners have been Immanuel Kant and, more recently, the intuitionists H. A. Prichard and W. D. Ross. Philosophical weaknesses in intuitionism have (...)
- David Hume, Moraliste et sociologue.Georges Lechartier - 1900 - Paris,: F. Alcan.
- The Concept of Solidarity – A Humean Perspective.Antoon Vandevelde - 2024 - Critical Horizons 25 (1):50-62.In this article, I define solidarity as the willingness to share with people we do not know personally but whom we consider to be equal to ourselves on the basis of some common feature allowing for identification. In the spirit of David Hume, I explain how identification can be developed through a learning process that leads us to ever more encompassing forms of sympathy. Then I show how solidarity, thus defined, is implemented in the institutions of the welfare state. Finally, (...)
- From Actuality to Goodness: Aristotle’s Rejection of Hume’s Law.Christopher Shields - 2024 - In David Keyt & Christopher Shields, Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. Springer Verlag. pp. 175-194.Aristotle’s Metaphysics Λ.7 features an argumentative progression from the unwavering actuality of the unmoved mover through its necessity to its goodness, which goodness in turn grounds the manner in which it serves as the ultimate principle of motion, namely, by being an object of love and desire (1072b4-12). One link in this progression is especially brief and startling, namely the second of two inferences in this short sentence: “It is a being of necessity, therefore, and in so far as [it (...)
- Rawls, Hume, and Original Contract.심재원 ) - 2020 - Modern Philosophy 16:143-166.롤즈는 『정치철학사 강의』의 ‘흄에 대한 강의’에서 흄의 「원초적 계약에 관하여」가 ‘로크’의 사회계약론을 비판하고 있다며 이를 재비판하고 있다. 롤즈가 강조하는 흄이 간과하는 측면은 “그[로크]의 사회 계약 기준이 언제 현존하고 합법적인 정체가 개별적으로 개인들을 구속하는가, 그렇다면 누가 체제의 완전한 시민이자 신민인가의 문제를 상정한다”는 것이다. 롤즈는 로크의 입장을 우선 다음과 같이 정식화한다: 정치적 체제는 그것이 만약 역사적 변화의 옳게-행해진 과정, 완전한 자유와 평등 상태와 함께 시작한 과정 동안 가입 계약될 수 있었을(could have been contracted into) 것과 같은 것일 경우에, 그리고 이 경우에 한해 (...)
- A Reconciliation between Liberty and Necessity : The connection of morality, responsibility, and liberty in Hume`s philosophy.최성민 ) - 2019 - Modern Philosophy 13:49-73.
- “To Keep Industry Alive”: Hume on Freer International Trade as Moral Improvement.Erik W. Matson - 2024 - In Benjamin Bourcier & Mikko Jakonen, British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham. Springer Verlag. pp. 95-118.In this chapter, Erik W. Matson describes how Hume’s international theory derives from his understanding of commerce and international trade as sources of moral improvement. Drawing on Hume's ideas of technical progress and innovation, Hume’s writings are shown to convey a nascent theory of comparative advantage.Trade benefitstrich and poor countries alike, facilitating a process of mutual emulation and development. International trade, moreover, contributes in Hume's view to cultural enhancement through its effects on socialization and the consequent extensions of individual sympathy.$104.49 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Ethics of Extinction: Humean Sentimentalism and the Value of the Human Species.Maurizio Balistreri - 2024 - Topoi 43 (1):55-63.The idea that the phenomenon of morality and, consequently, our ability to distinguish between vice and virtue can be explained by sympathy has been challenged as a highly controversial hypothesis, since sympathy appears to be easily influenced by proximity and selective, and would therefore seem incompatible with the possibility of taking an impartial, objective point of view. We intend to show that even a sentimentalist moral perspective such as the ‘Humean’ one, which places empathy (or ‘sympathy’, as Hume calls it) (...)
- The Fiction of "Moral Sentiment": The primacy of language in Hume's moral philosophy.Aimatsu Shinya - 2023 - Review of Analytic Philosophy 3 (1):63.
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