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1Hume and the Reality of ValueIn Anne Jaap Jacobson (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of David Hume, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 107--136. 2000.
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2Hume on Pride and the Other Indirect PassionsIn Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.In the Treatise, Hume focuses on pride as an “indirect passion,” one indicative of self-valuing and moral virtue and contributing positively to our sense of who we are and, in particular, to our moral identity. This essay examines those features of pride that make Hume’s account of the indirect passions so distinctive, beginning with an examination of his application of the experimental method to explain the origin of the indirect passions and the double relation of ideas and impressions as the …Read more
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20Hume on Beauty and VirtueIn Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Background for Hume's Views Beauty, Virtue, and the Double Association Beauty and Virtue as Powers of Producing Pleasure Beauty, Utility, and Sympathy Sympathy and the Standard of Virtue Beauty and Virtue in Hume's Later Philosophy The Standard of Taste More on Delicacy and the Pleasures of Beauty Beauty and Morality in “Of the Standard of Taste” References Further Reading.
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18Virtue and the Evaluation of CharacterIn Saul Traiger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Importance of Character Sympathy, the Indirect Passions, and Moral Sentiment Sympathy, Sentiment and Impartial Evaluation of Character The Errors of Remoteness and Countervailing Interest The Consequentialist Error The Authority of the Moral Sentiments Moral Knowledge as a Shared Resource Note References Further reading.
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18Comments on Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays”Hume Studies 48 (1): 155-162. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Comments on Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays”Jacqueline Taylor (bio)After David Hume’s death, Adam Smith wrote a letter to Hume’s publisher, William Strahan, to recount some of the final words and the attitude of “our late excellent friend, Mr. Hume.”1 Despite declining health and increasing weakness, Hume faced his approaching demise “with great cheerfulness” (EMPL xlvi). He had recently been reading Lu…Read more
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Sympathy and the sources of moral sentimentIn Esther Engels Kroeker & Willem Lemmens (eds.), Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals : A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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7Reply to My CriticsHume Studies 45 (1): 179-186. 2019.I thank Genevieve Lloyd for her generous and thought-provoking comments and questions. She raises two distinct issues: one regarding how to think about the way in which Hume's account of pride might be innovative, and the other about how a genre of philosophical writing limits or opens up what and how an author might discuss the subject at hand. She sets both issues in the context of comparing Spinoza with Hume.Lloyd reminds us that A. O. Hirschman, in The Passions and the Interests, charts a co…Read more
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12Précis of Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's PhilosophyHume Studies 45 (1): 143-145. 2019.In chapter 1, I argue that Hume well understands the experimental method and its role as what Geoffrey Cantor refers to as "a discourse of power," insofar as establishing facts in terms of efficient causation properly delimits what counts as a science, which is, in Hume's case, a science of human nature. With respect to the passions, I focus on parts 1 and 2 of Treatise Book 2, as an extended set of experiments meant to explain the origin, nature, and effects of the passion of pride, an indirect…Read more
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13Hume, Passion, and Action by Elizabeth S. RadcliffeJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (4): 820-821. 2020.Elizabeth Radcliffe's book is an important and original contribution to scholarship on Hume's ethics and moral psychology. Throughout, she deftly combines important discussions of Hume's predecessors and contemporaries that serve to contextualize his views with in-depth analysis of Hume's texts. At the same time, she shows an impressive familiarity with more recent scholarship on Hume's and Humean ethics, and deploys much of this recent scholarship to frame her own interpretation of Hume's ethic…Read more
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22Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is a landmark work in the history of moral philosophy. This volume presents new interpretative essays which offer a section-by-section study of the Enquiry, and of its relation to Hume's other writings on ethics, epistemology, religion, aesthetics, and emotion.
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51Justice and the Foundations of Social Morality in Hume's TreatiseHume Studies 24 (1): 5-30. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume XXIV, Number 1, April 1998, pp. 5-30 Justice and the Foundations of Social Morality in Hume's Treatise JACQUELINE TAYLOR Hume famously distinguishes between artificial virtues and natural virtues, or, at one place, between a sense of virtue that is natural and one that is artificial. The most prominent of the artificial virtues are those associated with the practices of justice. Commentators have devoted much atte…Read more
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119Hume on the standard of virtueThe Journal of Ethics 6 (1): 43-62. 2002.Among those sympathetic to Hume''smoral philosophy, a general consensus hasemerged that his first work on the topic,A Treatise of Human Nature, is his best. Hislater work, An Enquiry Concerning thePrinciples of Morals, is regarded as scaleddown in both scope and ambition. In contrastto this standard view, I argue that Hume''slater work offers a more sophisticated theoryof moral evaluation. I begin by reviewing theTreatise theory of moral evaluation tohighlight the reasons why commentators find s…Read more
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73Justice, Sympathy and the Command of our EsteemDiametros 44 173-188. 2015.I have shown here the different roles that sympathy plays in the accounts of justice in the Treatise and Enquiry. In the former work, a redirected sympathy naturally extends our concern, and subsequently our moral approval or blame, to all those included within the scope of the rules of justice. In the Enquiry, we find this same progress of sentiments, but Hume’s introduction of the sentiment of humanity allows him to make a stronger case for the importance of those virtues that are useful, part…Read more
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1Hume's later moral philosophyIn David Fate Norton & Jacqueline Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press. 1993.
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Moral Sentiment and the Sources of Moral IdentityIn Carla Bagnoli (ed.), Morality and the Emotions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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119Hume on the Dignity of PrideJournal of Scottish Philosophy 10 (1): 29-49. 2012.In including a well-regulated pride among the virtues that are both useful and agreeable to oneself, Hume challenges not only theological, but also secular accounts that view pride as a vice. I examine Hume's evolving views on pride in relation to the secular view that regards pride as vicious. I suggest Hume's account of pride in his later moral philosophy has a new emphasis on dignity, and reflects a distinctively modern outlook on the role of humanity in evaluating virtue and vice.
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107Gilding and Staining and the Significance of Our Moral SentimentsHume Studies 36 (1): 89-95. 2010.In Part 3 of Projection and Realism, P. J. E. Kail offers an original and thought-provoking analysis of Hume's views on morality. Kail seeks to make sense of Hume's talk of projection and realism. Kail's stated aim is to help us understand Hume's own views, rather than some new Humean view. Part 3 is thus a contribution to the literature on Hume's meta-ethics. Kail's particular approach presents two challenges to the student of Hume's works. First, Kail gives us a set of terms that are not Hume'…Read more
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44Hume and the Nortons on the Passions and Morality in Hume's TreatiseHume Studies 33 (2): 305-312. 2007.
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59The Cambridge Companion to Hume (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1993.Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepti…Read more
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35Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2015.Jacqueline Taylor presents an original reconstruction of Hume's social theory, which examines the passions and imagination in relation to institutions such as government and the economy. She goes on to examine Hume's system of ethics, and argues that the principle of humanity is the central concept of Hume's Enlightenment philosophy.
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