Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of the eighteenth-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.
Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of the eighteenth-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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rachel Cohon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the editor of Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy (Dartmouth/Ashgate, 2001) and author of a number of articles about Hume's moral philosophy and about the relation of between morality and reasons, including "Hume on Promises and the Peculiar Act of the Mind," (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2006) and "The Roots of Reasons" (Philosophical Review, 2000).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Feeling Virtue 1: Our Common Reading of Hume's Metaethics 2: The Causes of Motivating Passions 3: Reason Alone and Moral Discrimination 4: Feeling Virtue and the Reality of Moral Distinctions 5: The Common Point of View Part II: Fabricating Virtue 6: The Difficulty with the Virtue of Honesty 7: Fidelity to Promises and the Peculiar Act of the Mind 8: The Shackles of Virtue: Allegiance to Government 9: Criticizing Hume's List of Virtues and Vices Bibliography Index
Part I: Feeling Virtue 1: Our Common Reading of Hume's Metaethics 2: The Causes of Motivating Passions 3: Reason Alone and Moral Discrimination 4: Feeling Virtue and the Reality of Moral Distinctions 5: The Common Point of View Part II: Fabricating Virtue 6: The Difficulty with the Virtue of Honesty 7: Fidelity to Promises and the Peculiar Act of the Mind 8: The Shackles of Virtue: Allegiance to Government 9: Criticizing Hume's List of Virtues and Vices Bibliography Index
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