Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume on morality /
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| Author / Creator: | Baillie, James, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. |
| Description: | ix, 226 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge philosophy guidebooks |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4312106 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Life and times
- Methods and aims
- Moral sense
- 2. Background on the understanding
- Impressions and ideas
- Causation
- Denial of physical and mental substance
- 3. The passions
- The social self
- The direct passions
- Pride and humility
- Object and cause
- The double association of impressions and ideas
- Refinements to the rule
- Sympathy
- Love and hatred
- Sympathy and comparison
- 4. Motivation and will
- Freedom and the will
- Reason cannot directly motivate action
- Passions as 'original existents'
- A Humean account of motivation
- Calm passions
- 5. Against moral rationalism
- Introduction
- Two rationalists: Clarke and Wollaston
- Morals and motives
- Demonstrative reasoning cannot ground morality
- Factual error cannot be the source of immorality
- 'Is' and 'ought'
- The moral sentiments
- 6. The virtues
- The four sources of personal merit
- Against egoism
- Justice as an artificial virtue
- The origin of justice and property
- Natural preconditions of justice
- The acquisition and transfer of property
- The artificiality of promises
- Self-interest in its proper place
- 7. The moral stance
- Sympathy and its correction
- A standard of taste
- A standard of morals
- Bibliography
- Index
