| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 285 pages) |
| Contents |
I Feeling Virtue -- 1 Our Common Reading of Hume's Metaethics 11 -- 2 The Causes of Motivating Passions 30 -- 3 Reason Alone and Moral Discrimination 63 -- 4 Feeling Virtue and the Reality of Moral Distinctions 96 -- 5 The Common Point of View 126 -- II Fabricating Virtue -- 6 The Difficulty with the Virtue of Honesty 161 -- 7 Fidelity to Promises and the Peculiar Act of the Mind 190 -- 8 The Shackles of Virtue: Allegiance to Government 215 -- 9 Criticizing Hume's List of Virtues and Vices 239 |
| Summary |
Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. She focuses on two claims: that human beings figure out what is good or evil by using our feelings or emotions, and that some of the good traits we recognize are produced by informal social agreement and teaching |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-275) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Ethics
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| SUBJECT |
Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199268443 |
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0199268444 |
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9780191708565 |
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0191708569 |
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