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Morality as a Back-up System: Hume's View?

Morality as a Back-up System: Hume's View? The sense duty a useful device for helpg men to do what a really good man would do without a sense duty..... Nowell-Smith A certa picture morality -- arguably a Humean one -- has come to have a proment place contemporary philosophy. On th picture, morality, as Richard Brt asserts, "a back-up system, Morality -- at which operates when spontaneous personal carg fails to motivate us to do as we ought." least the form moral prciples, whose force felt through one's sense duty -- , on th view, ideally superfluous. As a guide for one's own conduct it needed only sar as the agent's affective network deficient. If one only spontaneously desired a, cd about b, cd for c, felt aversion towards d as, use. ideally, one should, moral prciples a sense duty would be no There good reasons for supposg th Hume's view. After all, h characterization actg from dparagg: who feels duty more than little When any virtuous motive or prciple common human nature, a person, h heart devoid motive, account, may hate himself upon may perform the action without the motive, at least, to dgue to himself, ,as much as possible, h want it. sense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Morality as a Back-up System: Hume's View?

Baron, Marcia.
Hume Studies , Volume 14 (1) – Jan 26, 1988
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The sense duty a useful device for helpg men to do what a really good man would do without a sense duty..... Nowell-Smith A certa picture morality -- arguably a Humean one -- has come to have a proment place contemporary philosophy. On th picture, morality, as Richard Brt asserts, "a back-up system, Morality -- at which operates when spontaneous personal carg fails to motivate us to do as we ought." least the form moral prciples, whose force felt through one's sense duty -- , on th view, ideally superfluous. As a guide for one's own conduct it needed only sar as the agent's affective network deficient. If one only spontaneously desired a, cd about b, cd for c, felt aversion towards d as, use. ideally, one should, moral prciples a sense duty would be no There good reasons for supposg th Hume's view. After all, h characterization actg from dparagg: who feels duty more than little When any virtuous motive or prciple common human nature, a person, h heart devoid motive, account, may hate himself upon may perform the action without the motive, at least, to dgue to himself, ,as much as possible, h want it. sense

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Published: Jan 26, 1988

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