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Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (Hardcover)
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Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
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The book has two aims. First, to examine the extent and
significance of the connection between Hume's aesthetics and his
moral philosophy; and, second, to consider how, in light of the
connection, his moral philosophy answers central questions in
ethics. The first aim is realized in chapters 1-4. Chapter 1
examines Hume's essay "Of the Standard of Taste" to understand his
search for a "standard" and how this affects the scope of his
aesthetics. Chapter 2 establishes that he treats beauty in nature
and art and moral beauty as similar in kind, and applies the
conclusions about his aesthetics to his moral thought. Chapter 3
solves a puzzle to which this gives rise, namely, how individuals
both accept general standards that they also contravene in the
course of aesthetic and moral activity. Chapter 4 takes up the
normative aspect of Hume's approach by understanding moral
character through his view of moral beauty. The second aim of the
book is realized in chapters 5-7 by entertaining three objections
against Hume's moral philosophy. First, if morality is an immediate
reaction to the beauty of vice and the deformity of virtue, why is
perfect virtue not the general condition of every human individual?
Second, if morality consists of sentiments that arise in the
subject, how can moral judgments be objective and claim universal
validity? And third, if one can talk of "general standards"
governing conduct, how does one account for the diversity of moral
systems and their change over time? The first is answered by
showing that like good taste in aesthetics, 'right taste' in morals
requires that the sentiments are educated; the second, by arguing
against the view that Hume is a subjectivist and a relativist, and
the third (chapter 6), by showing that his approach contains a view
of progress left untouched by any personal prejudices Hume himself
might harbor. The book concludes in chapter 7 by showing how Hume's
view of philosophy affects the scope of any normative ethics.
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