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1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Annette C. Baier is one of David Hume's most sensitive and insightful readers. In The Cautious Jealous Virtue, she deepens our understanding of Hume by examining what he meant by "justice." In Baier's account, Hume always understood justice to be closely linked to self-interest (hence his description of it in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals as "the cautious jealous virtue"), but his understanding of the virtue expanded over time, as evidenced by later works, including his History of England." "Along with justice, Baier investigates the role of the natural virtue of equity (which Hume always understood to constrain justice) in Hume's thought, arguing that Hurne's view of equity can serve to balance his account of the artificial virtue of justice. The Cautious Jealous Virtue is an illuminating meditation that will interest not only Hume scholars but also those interested in the issues of justice and in ethics more generally."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776. |
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Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
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Treatise of human nature (Hume, David) |
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Justice (Philosophy) |
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PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baier, Annette. Cautious jealous virtue. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010 9780674049765 (DLC) 2009028101 (OCoLC)426066076 |
| ISBN |
9780674056152 (electronic book) |
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0674056159 (electronic book) |
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9780674049765 (alkaline paper) |
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0674049764 (alkaline paper) |
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