Justice as an artificial virtue in hume: Elements for a Psycho-social theory of action
Keywords:
artificial virtue, social order, civilizing process, moral judgment, moral sentiment, natural motives, moral motives, moral duty, natural laws, natural obligation, moral obligation, progress, progress of conscience, opposition of passionsAbstract
In the following pages, our specific aim is to show how Hume’s analysis of justice provides the occasion for the gradual display of some key elements of a psycho-social theory of action, which lays the foundations for later social thinking.
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