Research Catalog

Title

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume on morality / James Baillie.

Author

Baillie, James, 1957-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 226 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"David Hume is widely recognized as the greatest philosopher to have written in the English language. His treatise of Human Nature is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written."

Series Statement

Routledge philosophy guidebooks

Uniform Title

Routledge philosophy guidebooks.

Alternative Title

Hume on morality

Subject

• Hume, David, 1711-1776
• Hume, David 1711-1776
• Hume, David
• Ethics
• Ethics
• ethics (philosophy)
• Ethik
• Ethiek
• A treatise of human nature (Hume)
• An enquiry concerning human understanding (Hume)
• An enquiry concerning the principles of morals (Hume)
• Moral

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index.

Contents

Life and times -- Methods and aims -- Moral sense -- Background on the understanding -- Impressions and ideas -- Causation -- Denial of physical and mental substance -- The passions -- The social self -- The direct passions -- Pride and humility -- Object and cause -- The double association of impressions and ideas -- Refinements to the rule -- Sympathy -- Love and hatred -- Sympathy and comparison -- Motivation and will -- Freedom and the will -- Reason cannot directly motivate action -- Passions as 'original existents' -- A Humean account of motivation -- Calm passions -- Against moral rationalism -- Two rationalists: Clarke and Wollaston -- Morals and motives -- Demonstrative reasoning cannot ground morality -- Factual error cannot be the source of immorality -- 'Is' and 'ought' -- The moral sentiments -- The virtues -- The four sources of personal merit -- Against egoism -- Justice as an artificial virtue -- The origin of justice and property -- Natural preconditions of justice -- The acquisition and transfer of property -- The artificiality of promises -- Self-interest in its proper place -- The moral stance -- Sympathy and its correction -- A standard of taste -- A standard of morals.

ISBN

• 0415180481
• 9780415180481
• 041518049X
• 9780415180498

LCCN

• 99059823
• 9780415180498

OCLC

• ocm43109784
• 43109784
• SCSB-9484697

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library