Vitz / Reed Hume’s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-72051-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics. The dearth of scholarship that engages with Hume’s moral philosophy, however, is both noticeable and peculiar. Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology demonstrates how Hume’s moral philosophy comports with recent work from the empirical sciences and moral psychology. It shows how contemporary work in virtue ethics has much stronger similarities to the metaphysically thin conception of human nature that Hume developed, rather than the metaphysically thick conception of human nature that Aristotle espoused. It also reveals how contemporary work in moral motivation and moral epistemology has strong affinities with themes in Hume’s sympathetic sentimentalism.

Part I of the book addresses topics that are especially related to Hume’s ideas about the passions and the will, including his social idea of the self, his mechanistic account of sympathy, and his provocative theory of action. Part II discusses morality and politics, shedding light on Hume’s account of moral motivation, his virtue ethics, his social-political philosophy, and related normative concerns. This collection of original essays provides a systematic engagement with Hume’s moral philosophy and connects it with contemporary research in psychology and the empirical sciences. In doing so, it corrects an important oversight in contemporary interdisciplinary research in value theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vitz, Rico

Reed, Philip A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Testimony of Taste and Sentiment: An Overview Philip A. Reed and Rico Vitz Part I: Sympathy, the Self, and the Will 2. Beyond the "Disease of the Learned": Hume’s Melancholy Margaret Watkins 3. Hume on Sympathy, Monkish Virtues, and Self-Value Willem Lemmens 4. Empathy, Interdependency, and Morality Lorraine Besser 5. Empathy, Autism, and Hume Katharina Paxman Renick 6. The Art of Cultivating Sympathy Annette Pierdziwol 7. Self-Regulating Passions and Practical Reasons Elizabeth Radcliffe 8. Greater and Lesser Revolutions in the War of Reason and Passion Saul Traiger Part II: Politics, Virtue, and Morality 9. Hume on Moral Motivation Michael Gill 10. Preserving the Practical Dimension of Morality: A Defense of Hume’s Sympathy-Based Ethics Lorenzo Greco 11. Spontaneity, Intuition, and Humean Virtues Erin Frykholm 12. Hume on the Diffusion of Virtue Philip A. Reed 13. Character, Culture, and the Limits of Humean Virtue Ethics Rico Vitz 14. What We Can Learn from Hume Today: Moral Theory and the Case of Love Christine Swanton 15. Humean Political Art Eric Schleisser 16. Conclusion: Hume, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Psychology: Future Directions Philip A. Reed and Rico Vitz

Über Autor(innen)

Rico Vitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, USA and serves as the Executive Vice President-Treasurer of the Hume Society. He is the author of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes’s Epistemology, co-editor of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social, and the editor of Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith.

Philip Reed is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College, USA where he also codirects the Ethics and Justice Programs. His main areas of interest are in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. His articles on Hume’s moral psychology appear in such places as History of Philosophy Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He has also published articles in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Christian Bioethics.