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Mind and Morality - An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology (Hardcover, New)
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Mind and Morality - An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology (Hardcover, New)
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John Bricke presents a philosophical study of the theory of mind
and morality that David Hume developed in his Treatise of Human
Nature and other writings. The chief elements in this theory of
mind are Hume's accounts of reasons for action and of the complex
interrelations of desire, volition, and affection. On this basis,
Professor Bricke lays out and defends Hume's thoroughgoing
non-cognitivist theory of moral judgement, and shows that
cognitivist and standard sentimentalist readings of Hume are
unsatisfactory, as are the usual interpretations of his views on
the connections between morality, justice, and convention. Hume
rejects any conception of moral beliefs and moral truths. He
understands morality in terms of distinctive desires and other
sentiments that arise through the correction of sympathy. He
represents moral desires as prior to the other moral sentiments.
Morality, he holds, in part presupposes conventions for mutual
interest; it is not, however, itself a matter of convention. Mind
and Morality demonstrates that Hume's sophisticated moral
conativism sets a challenge that recent cognitivist theories of
moral judgement cannot readily meet, and his subtle treatment of
the interplay of morality and convention suggests significant
limitations to recent conventionalist and contractarian accounts of
morality's content.
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