An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1751
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1751
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Enquiry concerning the principles of morals / Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Author : Esther Engels Kroeker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110842287X
Examines each section of Hume's second Enquiry in detail and considers its place within Hume's philosophy as a whole.
Author : Hadley Arkes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691213895
This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the "moral sciences": that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be otherwise. It was understood in the past that, in morals or in mathematics, our knowledge begins with certain axioms that must hold true of necessity; that the principles drawn from these axioms hold true universally, unaffected by variations in local "cultures"; and that the presence of these axioms makes it possible to have, in the domain of morals, some right answers. Hadley Arkes restates the grounds of that older understanding and unfolds its implications for the most vexing political problems of our day. The author turns first to the classic debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. After establishing the groundwork and properties of moral propositions, he traces their application in such issues as selective conscientious objection, justifications for war, the war in Vietnam, a nation's obligation to intervene abroad, the notion of supererogatory acts, the claims of "privacy," and the problem of abortion.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 159605493X
Sympathy, we shall allow, is much fainter than our concern for ourselves, and sympathy with persons remote from us much fainter than that with persons near and contiguous; but for this very reason it is necessary for us, in our calm judgments and discourse concerning the characters of men, to neglect all these differences and render our sentiments more public and social.-from "Why Utility Pleases"David Hume may well be the most significant philosopher ever to write in the English language: his arguments dramatically influenced both scientific and religious thinking, and much of what he wrote-particular concerning free will, political theory, and religion-still sounds startlingly modern. Hume himself called this "incomparably the best" of all his many writings. First published in 1751, it is an astonishing consideration of source and value of the feelings, thoughts, and actions we call "morality," and it is required reading for anyone who calls himself educated.AUTHOR BIO: Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist DAVID HUME (1711-1776) also wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and Enquiry's Concerning Human Understanding (1748).
Author : David Hume
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2014-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781502527332
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1993-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 160384452X
This expanded edition of James Ellington’s preeminent translation includes Ellington’s new translation of Kant’s essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of disastrous consequences.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872202290
A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.
Author : George H. Smith
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1944424407
There is a well-worn image and phrase for libertarianism: ?atomized individualism.? This hobgoblin has spread so thoroughly that even some libertarians think their philosophy unreservedly supports private persons, whatever the situation, whatever their behavior. Smith?s Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism, corrects this misrepresentation with careful intellectual surveys of Hume, Smith, Hobbes, Butler, Mandeville, and Hutcheson and their respective contributions to political philosophy.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8027303893
"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."