Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of theeighteenth-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. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959497-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés