Sieges, Shipwrecks, andSensible Knaves: Justice and Utility in Butler and Hume
By examining the theories of justice developed by Joseph Butler and David Hume, the author discloses the conceptual limits of their moral naturalism. Butler was unable to accommodate the possibility that justice is, at least to some extent, a social convention. Hume, who more presciently tried to sp...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2000
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-280 |
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Justice
B Utility B Convention B Aquinas B Hume B Butler |
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