Hume as Secularizer: An Assessment of Hume's Secular Moral Philosophy
This paper explores Hume’s attempt to provide a secular account of ethics that does not depend upon any particular answer to larger metaphysical questions. I show that Hume is motivated to provide such an ethic, in part, in order to reduce the harms he thought to accompany religious morality. I argu...
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University
2018
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Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Pages: 70-87 |
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