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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    22 February 1991
    ISBN:
    9781139172370
    9780521392617
    9780521892711
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172370
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.518kg, 338 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.452kg, 340 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This 1991 book is about the continuing influence of Hume's ideas on moral and political philosophy. In part, it is a critical exegesis of Hume's most impressive and challenging doctrines in Book III of the Treatise of Human Nature on such topics as morals, motivation, justice, and social institutions. However, the main thrust of the argument is to throw into relief the importance of that discussion for contemporary philosophy. While the author subjects most contemporary defences of Humean doctrines to intense criticism, he also seeks to discover what versions of Hume's theories might still be defensible and viable.

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    "...there is substantial contemporary interest in the Humean doctrines and arguments which Snare scrupulously lays out and criticizes. Many people have discussed these themes in various ways, but I don't know of a clearer, more careful, and sounder treatment of them than Snare's." Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan

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