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Reading group: Hume’s Treatise on reason, passion and the source of moral distinctions
I have finally started reading Hume properly in retirement, and I would like company for the passages that underlie most modern arguments about moral motivation. Three short sections of A Treatise of Human Nature, one a week: Week 1. Book 2, Part…
Started by Alistair Gow5 replies -
Hume’s Dialogues had answered the watchmaker before Paley set it ticking
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion were published in 1779, three years after his death, which is a fair measure of how risky he thought they were. William Paley's Natural Theology, with its famous watch found on a heath, appeared in 1802. My…
Started by Alistair Gow6 replies -
Hume was right: reason can choose the means, never the ends
Hume lived down the road from where I worked for thirty-four years, so I am biased. But I think his account of practical reason has never been bettered. In the Treatise, Book 2, Hume says that reason is, and ought only to…
Started by Alistair Gow6 replies