Morals Motivation And Convention

Download or read book Morals, Motivation, and Convention written by Francis Snare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the continuing influence of Hume's ideas on moral and political philosophy. In part, it is a critical exegesis of Hume's most impressive and challenging doctrines in Book III of the Treatise of Human Nature on such topics as morals, motivation, justice, and social institutions. However, the main thrust of the argument is to throw into relief the importance of that discussion for contemporary philosophy. While the author subjects most contemporary defenses of Humean doctrines to intense criticism, he also seeks to discover what versions of Hume's theories might still be defensible and viable.