Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized?

Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized?

Despite being averse to moral extravagance, Hume’s own conception of morality threatens to be too demanding and his view of human life to be too moralistic. The problem lies in the scope (and concomitantly the content) Hume assigns morality, the effect of which is the apparent exclusion of the moral...

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Main Author: Michael D. Garral
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2007-09-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia
Subjects:
Hume
Self
Overmoralization
Extravagance
Demandingness
Comprehensiveness
Scope
Content
Virtue
Duty
Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/10088
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Summary:Despite being averse to moral extravagance, Hume’s own conception of morality threatens to be too demanding and his view of human life to be too moralistic. The problem lies in the scope (and concomitantly the content) Hume assigns morality, the effect of which is the apparent exclusion of the morally indifferent and the morally supererogatory. This threatens to render the normative dimension of Hume’s account problematic. Sufficiently problematic to overmoralize the self? That is the question this essay seeks to motivate.
ISSN:0034-8244
1988-284X

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