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Mind and Morality John Bricke (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas)

Mind and Morality By John Bricke (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas)

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John Bricke presents an original interpretative study of the theory of moral psychology developed by the great British philosopher David Hume, and shows that it presents a powerful challenge to rival theories of mind and morality that are Hume conference flyer, Cambridge Sept 00 AP 14/10/00

Mind and Morality Summary

Mind and Morality: An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology by John Bricke (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas)

John Bricke presents a philosophical study of the theory of mind and morality that David Hume developed in his Treatise of Human Nature and other writings. The chief elements in the theory of mind are Hume's accounts of reasons for action and of the complex interrelations of desire, volition, and affection. On this basis, Professor Bricke lays out and defends Hume's thoroughgoing non-cognitivist theory of moral judgement, and shows that cognitivist and standard sentimentalist readings of Hume are unsatisfactory, as are the usual interpretations of his views on the connections between morality, justice, and convention. Hume rejects any conception of moral beliefs and moral truths. He understands morality in terms of distinctive desires and other sentiments that arise through the correction of sympathy. He represents moral desires as prior to the other moral sentiments. Morality, he holds, in part presupposes conventions for mutual interest; it is not, however, itself a matter of convention. Mind and Morality demonstrates that Hume's sophisticated moral conativism sets a challenge that recent cognitivist theories of moral judgement cannot readily meet, and his subtle treatment of the interplay of morality and convention suggests significant limitations to recent conventionalist and contractarian accounts of morality's content.

Mind and Morality Reviews

Bricke's discussion of the arguments by which Hume seeks to establish these important conclusions is subtle and illuminating. He also argues convincingly that, for Hume, the convention-bound does not exhaust the morally significant ... His detailed analysis of Hume's arguments raises issues of interpretative and more general philosophical interest throughout, and even where one might be inclined to dispute his account of Hume there is much to be learned. * A. E. Pitson, Philosophy in Review *
stimulating and well-written interpretation of Hume's moral theory ... Bricke's discussion is grounded in a profound, and profoundly interesting, understanding of Hume's theory of the passions ... It remains that Bricke has produced a book that can be recommended without reseravation to students of moral theory, to anyone with an interest in Hume. * Andrew Cunningham, Review of Metaphysics *

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NPB9780198235897
9780198235897
0198235895
Mind and Morality: An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology by John Bricke (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
1996-08-01
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