Fikcja moralności, czyliproblem motywacji w etyce Davida Hume`a

• Authors: Tomasz Żuradzki

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THE FICTION OF MORALITY. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVATION IN DAVID HUME`S ETHICS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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David Hume is considered to be the founding father of metaethical non-cognitivism and his moral philosophy is often taken to be a classical example of motivational internalism. In this paper I discuss Hume’s view on the problem of moral motivation depending on natural and artificial virtues. I also analyze some recent interpretations of his moral philosophy. I conclude that Hume can indeed be treated as a non-cognitivist, but his theory is very different from present-day non-cognitivism. The main difference is that Hume did not consider moral emotions as necessarily motivating.

Keywords

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moral philosophy; Hume; metaethical non-cognitivism; motivational internalism; motivation; emotion; virtue

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 65-109

Contributors

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Tomasz Żuradzki

• Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, ul.Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków, Poland