Morals, Motivation, and Convention - Hume''s Influential Doctrines

Klappentext This is a book about the continuing influence of Hume's ideas on moral and political philosophy. Zusammenfassung This 1991 book is about the continuing influence of Hume's ideas on moral and political philosophy. While the author subjects most contemporary defenses of Humean doctrines to intense criticism! he also seeks to discover what versions of Hume's theories might still be defensible and viable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Argument for Sentimentalism: 1. A systematic ambiguity; 2. The influence argument; 3. Some bad reasons for believing the first premiss; 4. The Humean theory of motivating reasons; 5. The provocative Humean theory of motivation; Part II. The Problems and Consequences of Sentimentalism: 6. Continuity and circularity; 7. The problem with justice; 8. The conservative theory of justice; 9. Convention and institutional facts; 10. Convention and the regard to justice; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Francis Snare, Francis (University of Sydney) Snare, Snare Francis
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Dancy (Herausgeber), Ernest Sosa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521892711
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89271-1
• Seiten: 340
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards