PHL244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: French Revolution, Latin Literature, Stoicism

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27 Dec 2016
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Hume, in partial agreement with thinkers/sceptics, regards justice (one of the central virtues) as artificial; a matter of convention, not nature. Its artificiality involves among other things the way in which it makes us attach value to. If we were simply going by our own innate nature, we would not approve of this. If we simply went with our nature sentiments, we would not disapprove. The virtue of justice leads to conflict because we approve of things that we have a natural sentiment to disapprove of. Hume parts with the sceptics by identifying the innate feelings that give us basis for justice: We are moved by sentiments that have the wellbeing of others in mind. Our ultimate motivation for accepting justice is not only in self-love. The gap between our natural impulses and the virtue of justice is less great in hume"s philosophy than it is in the philosophy of sceptics.

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