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Eric Schliesser
Philosophical Relations, Natural Relations, and Philosophic Decisionism in Belief in the External World:
Comments on P. J. E. Kail, Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy
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James A. Harris
Hume on the Moral Obligation to Justice
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There is a prominent place in recent work on Hume’s moral philosophy for the idea that Hume is best placed in the tradition of virtue ethics. I argue in this paper that Hume’s theory of justice cannot be given a virtue-theoretic construal. I argue that Hume should rather be placed in the tradition of theorizing about justice inaugurated by Grotius. In this tradition, the moral obligation to justice is spelled out in terms of the necessity of respect for property, for contracts, and for political authority in a stable and peaceful society. In this tradition, furthermore, justice is regarded as primarily as a matter of respecting perfect rights, and, relatedly, as primarily manifest in omissions rather than in actions. The search for an agent-state definitive of Hume’s just person is fruitless, I suggest, because Hume himself gives reasons to believe that there is no such thing. I argue that for Hume the just person is, simply, someone who obeys the conventions that define the nature of justice, regardless of why she does so.
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Causality and Generality in the Treatise and the Tractatus
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John O. Nelson
The Burial and Resurrection of Hume's Essay "Of Miracles"
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Houghton Dalrymple
Kemp Smith, Hume and the Parallelism between Reason and Morality
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Christopher MacLachlan
Hume and the Standard of Taste
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Joseph Agassi
A Note on Smith's Term "Naturalism"
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Hume's Justice as a Collective Good
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Michael J. Costa
Hume and Causal Inference
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Oliver A. Johnson
Hume's Refutation of -- Wollaston?
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William Vitek
The Humean Promise:
Whence Comes Its Obligation?
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James Dye
Hume on Curing Superstition
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Antony Flew
Social Justice:
From Rawls to Hume
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Toshihiro Tanaka
Hume to Smith:
An Unpublished Letter
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Fred Wilson
Hume and Derrida on Language and Meaning
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H. S. Harris
The 'Naturalness' of Natural Religion
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George Nathan
Comments on Tweyman and Davis
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Stanley Tweyman
Hume's Dialogues on Evil
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John W. Davis
Going Out the Window:
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Pheroze S. Wadia
Commentary on Professor Tweyman's 'Hume on Evil'
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