Hume

Moral Philosophy

By: David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Editor)

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A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and many of his essays as well. This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, a leading moral philosopher and Hume scholar, has done a meticulous job of editing the texts and has provided an extensive Introduction that is at once accessible, accurate, and philosophically engaging, revealing the deep structure of Hume's moral philosophy. --Don Garrett, New York University

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A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and many of his essays as well. This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, a leading moral philosopher and Hume scholar, has done a meticulous job of editing the texts and has provided an extensive Introduction that is at once accessible, accurate, and philosophically engaging, revealing the deep structure of Hume's moral philosophy.--Don Garrett, New York University

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My own life	p. 1
Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq	p. 7
A treatise of human nature	p. 12
Of the passions	p. 13
Of pride and humility	p. 13
Division of the subject	p. 13
Of pride and humility; their objects and causes	p. 14
Whence these objects and causes are deriv'd	p. 16
Of the relations of impressions and ideas	p. 18
Of the influence of these relations on pride and humility	p. 19
Limitations of this system	p. 23
Of vice and virtue	p. 26
Of the love of fame	p. 28
Of love and hatred	p. 35
Of the objects and causes of love and hatred	p. 35
Experiments to confirm this system	p. 37
Difficulties solv'd	p. 47
Of the will and direct passions	p. 51
Of liberty and necessity	p. 51
The same subject continu'd	p. 56
Of the influencing motives of the will	p. 60
Of morals	p. 67
Of virtue and vice in general	p. 67
Moral distinctions not deriv'd from reason	p. 67
Moral distinctions deriv'd from a moral sense	p. 77
Of justice and injustice	p. 82
Justice, whether a natural or artificial virtue?	p. 82
Of the origin of justice and property	p. 87
Of the rules, which determine property	p. 99
Of the transference of property by consent	p. 109
Of the obligation of promises	p. 110
Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice	p. 117
Of the origin of government	p. 123
Of the source of allegiance	p. 126
Of the measures of allegiance	p. 134
Of the objects of allegiance	p. 136
Of the laws of nations	p. 146
Of chastity and modesty	p. 148
Of the other virtues and vices	p. 151
Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices	p. 151
Of greatness of mind	p. 163
Of goodness and benevolence	p. 170
Of natural abilities	p. 173
Some farther reflections concerning the natural virtues	p. 179
Conclusion of this book	p. 181
An enquiry concerning the principles of morals	p. 185
Of the general principles of morals	p. 187
Of benevolence	p. 192
Of justice	p. 197
Of political society	p. 213
Why utility pleases	p. 218
Of qualities useful to ourselves	p. 232
Of qualities immediately agreeable to ourselves	p. 244
Of qualities immediately agreeable to others	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 257
Concerning moral sentiment	p. 268
Of self-love	p. 275
Some farther considerations with regard to justice	p. 281
Of some verbal disputes	p. 288
A dialogue	p. 297
Essays : moral, political, and literary	p. 311
Of the delicacy of taste and passion	p. 311
Of the origin of government	p. 314
Of the dignity or meanness of human nature	p. 317
Of civil liberty	p. 322
The sceptic	p. 329
Of the standard of taste	p. 345
Of the original contract	p. 361
Of suicide	p. 376
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