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Hume’s Passion and Moral Property

Kim, Dasom 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

The 18th-century Hume asserts that moral judgment is a emotional and general judgment. Hume's ethical theory is built upon his general theory of human nature and knowledge. This thought of Hume indicated the deconstruction of reason-centred moral viewpoint and the coming of an emotion-centred one. On the one hand Hume’s doctrine that moral distinction is derived from passion, not reason, follows the tradition of moral sense school, on the other hand it surpasses the limit of the school which does not resolve the problem of moral binding with duty and obligation. On the basis of the principle of empirical investigation with observation and experiment Hume show that the generality of moral judgment comes into being from the moral property which is relational property responding to the natural tendency of human nature such as utility, sympathy, and convention

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