Hutcheson's Contentious Sense of Honour

Journal of Scottish Philosophy 19 (2):145-163 (2021)
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The moral sense is at the heart of Hutcheson's system. Its prominent role in this philosopher's morals and posterior commentary eclipses the rest of the senses, but there is at least one sense that deserves more attention in scholarship: the sense of honour. The reason the sense of honour, and its subordination to the moral sense, is attention-worthy is that it combats Mandeville's idea of honour as artifice. First, I flesh out the tension between pride and the moral sense and a possible tension between the sense of honour and the moral sense. Next, I show how Hutcheson expanded and elaborated on the sense of honour, particularly in his later works ( System and Compendiaria). His strategy consisted in dissolving the tension between the sense of honour and the moral sense.

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The moral sense.D. D. Raphael - 1947 - London,: Oxford Univ. Press.
Hutcheson's moral realism.David Fate Norton - 1985 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (3):397-418.

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