Virtue ethics and human nature

Hume Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 67-82

  Hursthouse, Rosalind ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (16)

1. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971) 436
2. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. PH. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), I.18.
3. In my recent reflections on Aristotle's answer, I have come to realize that this claim is much more complicated than I supposed when I first blithely asserted it; but, for the purposes of this paper, I shall leave it in this rather vague, but at least familiar, form. For the complications, see my On Virtue Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
4. See The Letters of David Hume, 2 vols., ed. J. Y. T. Grieg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), letter 13, in vol. 1: 32-34.
5. James Moore, "Hume and Hutcheson" in M. A. Stewart and John P. Wright, eds. Hume and Hume's Connexions, (Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 1995).
6. see Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, tr. J. A. K. Thomson, rev. H. Tredennick (London: Penguin, 1976) 1103a23-25.
8. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed. revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), hereafter abbreviated as "T" with page numbers inserted parenthetically in the text
9. David Hume, Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd ed. revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), with the second Enquiry abbreviated as "EPM" with page numbers inserted parenthetically in the text.
10. Rachel Cohon, "The Common Point of View in Hume's Ethics," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57 (1997): 827-50.
11. Nicomachean Ethics 1117b16-18.
12. My italics. Compare the Treatise claim that such qualities "are esteem'd valuable upon no other account than their advantage in the conduct of life" (T 610-611).
13. "Of the Standard of Taste," in David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985), 241.
14. Philippa Foot, "Virtues and Vices", in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978), 6.
15. Annette Baier, "Moral Sentiments and the Difference They Make," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. Vol., 69 (1995): 15-30.
16. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, "Why Hume's 'General point of View' Isn't Ideal and Shouldn't Be," Social Philosophy and Policy, 2 (1994): 202-28.