Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The author and the book
- 2 First principles
- 3 Causation
- 4 Skepticism
- 5 Determinism
- 6 Passions, sympathy, and other minds
- 7 Motivation: reason and calm passions
- 8 Moral sense, reason, and moral skepticism
- 9 The foundations of morals
- Bibliography and further reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The author and the book
- 2 First principles
- 3 Causation
- 4 Skepticism
- 5 Determinism
- 6 Passions, sympathy, and other minds
- 7 Motivation: reason and calm passions
- 8 Moral sense, reason, and moral skepticism
- 9 The foundations of morals
- Bibliography and further reading
- Index
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- Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'An Introduction, pp. 304 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009