Hume's morality : feeling and fabrication / Rachel Cohon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohon, Rachel, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Ethics.

Hume, David.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)

Other Title:

Feeling and fabrication

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-275) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-959497-X

0-19-170856-9

1-281-97862-0

9786611978624

OCLC:

427823069