Calling All Knaves: Hume on Moral Motivation
EIDOS: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 10.2 (December 1992)
19 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2012 Last revised: 10 Jan 2013
Date Written: 1992
Abstract
A controversy has arisen in recent Hume scholarship, concerning whether or not Hume was an internalist about moral motivation. I argue here that Hume was an internalist about the natural virtues (i.e., it is a conceptual truth that the natural virtues motivate) but an externalist about the artificial virtues.
Keywords: Ethics, Morality, Virtue, Hume, Moral Internalism, Moral Externalism, Justice, Contractarianism
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Dimock, Susan, Calling All Knaves: Hume on Moral Motivation (1992). EIDOS: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 10.2 (December 1992), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2181471
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