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The Cautious Jealous Virtue - Hume on Justice (Hardcover)
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The Cautious Jealous Virtue - Hume on Justice (Hardcover)
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Like David Hume, whose work on justice she engages here, Annette C.
Baier is a consummate essayist: her spirited, witty prose captures
nuances and telling examples in order to elucidate important
philosophical ideas. Baier is also one of Hume s most sensitive and
insightful readers. In "The Cautious Jealous Virtue," she deepens
our understanding of Hume by examining what he meant by justice. In
Baier s account, Hume always understood justice to be closely
linked to self-interest (hence his description of it in "An Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals" as the cautious jealous virtue
), but his understanding of the virtue expanded over time, as
evidenced by later works, including his History of England. Along
with justice, Baier investigates the role of the natural virtue of
equity (which Hume always understood to constrain justice) in Hume
s thought, arguing that Hume s view of equity can serve to balance
his account of the artificial virtue of justice. "The Cautious
Jealous Virtue" is an illuminating meditation that will interest
not only Hume scholars but also those interested in the issues of
justice and in ethics more generally.
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