Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals

Herausgeber: Taylor, Jacqueline

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Produktbeschreibung

Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is a landmark work in the history of moral philosophy. This volume presents new interpretative essays which offer a section-by-section study of the Enquiry, and of its relation to Hume's other writings on ethics, epistemology, religion, aesthetics, and emotion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780199603749
• ISBN-10: 019960374X
• Artikelnr.: 58341928

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is author of Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy (OUP 2015), as well as numerous articles on Hume, the Enlightenment, and moral psychology. She is also co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Hume (CUP 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume's Revisions, and the Structure and Main
Argument of EPM
* 2: Moritz Baumstark: The Biographical Background of the Second
Enquiry
* 3: Angela Calvo De Saavedra: Benevolence and Self-Interest in Hume's
Moral Philosophy
* 4: James Harris: Justice in An Enquiry concerning the Principles of
Morals
* 5: Anthony E. Pitson: Sympathy, Humanity, and the Foundation of
Morals
* 6: Colin Heydt: Hume's Innovative Taxonomy of the Virtues
* 7: Rachel Cohon: Virtue as a Means to Happiness in Hume's Second
Enquiry
* 8: P. J. E. Kail: "Concerning Moral Sentiment": The Moral Sense in
the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
* 9: Remy Debes: Hume on Personal Merit: Virtue, Talent, and the Import
of EPM Appendix 4
* 10: Dario Perinetti: Moral Pluralism and the Historical Point of
View: Reading "A Dialogue"
* 11: Amy Schmitter: Negotiating Pluralism in Taste and Character:
Reading the Second Enquiry with "Of the Standard of Taste"
* 12: Thomas Holden: Religion and the Perversion of Philosophy in
Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
* 13: Jane L. McIntyre: The Passions in An Enquiry Concerning the
Principles of Morals
* 14: Peter Millican: The Relation between Hume's Two Enquiries
* 15: Emilio Mazza: The eloquent "Enquiry": Merit or Virtue in its
Proper Colours