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
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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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