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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition » (New Edition)

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Authors: David Hume, J. B. Schneewind, Jerome B. Schneewind (Editor), J.B. Schneewind
ISBN-13: 9780915145454, ISBN-10: 0915145456
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 1982
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: David Hume

Georgetown University

Book Synopsis

This new volume in the Clarendon Hume series presents a definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy. In his elegant and lucid Enquiry Hume gives us an accessible presentation of a fully developed ethical theory. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom L. Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by introduction, annotation, glossary, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and indexes.

	How to Use this Book	3
	List of Abbreviations	5
	Editor's introduction	7
	The Text Printed in this Edition	54
	Supplementary Reading	55
	An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals	71
1	Of the General Principles of Morals	73
2	Of Benevolence	78
3	Of Justice	83
4	Of Political Society	99
5	Why Utility Pleases	104
6	Of Qualities Useful to Ourselves	119
7	Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to Ourselves	131
8	Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to Others	139
9	Conclusion	145
App. 1	Concerning Moral Sentiment	157
App. 2	Of Self-Love	164
App. 3	Some Farther Considerations with Regard to Justice	170
App. 4	Of Some Verbal Disputes	176
	A Dialogue	185
	Annotations to the Enquiry	203
	Glossary	258
	References	266
	Index	275