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Contemporary ethical thought owes a great deal to David Hume whose work has inspired non-cognitivists, naturalists and error-theorists and stimulated the rival theories of Kant and contemporary Kantians. This timely volume assembles an distinguished cast of international scholars to discuss three themes from Hume. First, Hume's infamous claim that 'Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions', which seems to suggest that reason can choose between means but not ends; second, the Motivation Argument which purports to prove that 'the rules of morality ...are not conclusions of our reason'; and third, Hume's treatment of the virtues, which is now the focus of renewed philosophical interest. The contributors discuss these issues and other matters arising from the Humean agenda. Contributors: Annette Baier, Stephen Finlay, Kent Hurtig, Rosalind Hursthouse, Richard Joyce, Norva Y. S. Lo, Graham Oddie, Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Luke Russell, Constantine Sandis, Michael Smith, Christine Swanton

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Hume on Motivation and Virtue
• Author: C. Pigden
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 303
• EAN: 9780230205277
• ISBN: 0230205275
• ID: 04552069
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 534 g
• Dimensions: 149 × 224 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. November 2009

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