RT Article
T1 Minding the Gap: Bernard Williams and David Hume on Living an Ethical Life
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 11
IS 5
SP 615
OP 638
A1 Sagar, Paul
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817469509
AB Bernard Williams is frequently supposed to be an ethical Humean, due especially to his work on ‘internal’ reasons. In fact Williams’s work after his famous article ‘Internal and External Reasons’ constitutes a profound shift away from Hume’s ethical outlook. Whereas Hume offered a reconciling project whereby our ethical practices could be self-validating without reference to external justificatory foundations, Williams’s later work was increasingly skeptical of any such possibility. I conclude by suggesting reasons for thinking Williams was correct, a finding which should be of concern for anybody engaged in the study of ethics.
K1 Ethical Living
K1 internal reasons
K1 History of Ethics
K1 foundations of ethics
K1 David Hume
K1 Bernard Williams
DO 10.1163/17455243-4681019