University of Virginia
Corcoran Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1990
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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    Hume's Views on Moral Judgment
    Dissertation, University of Virginia. 1991.
    The present study contains three chapters, each emphasizing some different aspect of Hume's treatment of moral judgment. The first chapter addresses Hume's account of what it is for a moral judgment to be correct, as well as his account of the sources of errors we encounter in moral judgment, and the ways we can attempt to avoid and correct such errors. The second examines Hume's motivational arguments against ethical rationalism, and offers a new interpretation of Hume on the relation of moral …Read more