Virtue by consensus : the moral philosophy of Hutcheson, Hume, and Adam Smith
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Virtue by consensus : the moral philosophy of Hutcheson, Hume, and Adam Smith
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [161]-162
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The author looks at the empiricist ethics of the School of Moral Sentiment, concentrating on Hutcheson, Hume and Adam Smith. Some of their ideas are developed into a merit theory of rights, applicable to conventional rights.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Aims of the study. Part 2 The classical background and the revival of naturalism. Part 3 Hutcheson: Hutcheson's theory of virtue
- moral sense, approval and moral judgement
- the inadequacy of reason as the sole source of moral approval. Part 4 Hume: Hume's general theory of virtue, moral sense and moral judgement
- the natural and artificial virtues
- moral perception, moral fact and reason
- reason alone connot distinguish virtue from vice. Part 5 Smith: Smith's progress on Hutcheson and Hume
- propriety
- merit
- duty
- the virtues
- moral approval and reason. Part 6 Beyond Hume and Smith: fairness
- rights
- obligation
- virtue and moral virtue. Part 7 Moral Knowledge.
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