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- Hume maintains that the duty to obey one’s government has an independent origin that parallels that of promissory obligation: both are invented to enable people to live together successfully.
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Oct 29, 2004 · Hume thinks it unnecessary to prove that allegiance to government is the product of convention and not mere nature, since governments are obviously social creations. But he does need to explain the creation of governments and how they solve the problem he describes.
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This chapter assesses David Hume’s view of the basis of political authority and his criticisms of consent theory. He offers a negative argument based on the claim that no one believes that their duty to obey rests on consent, and positive argument based on the claim that everyone believes that they have such a duty and that, in politics ...
Feb 25, 2009 · As Hume says, ‘this right resembles very much that of present possession’. There is a further rule of allegiance which has no parallel in the rules of justice. This is where government derives its authority from positive laws.
This chapter discusses the following: (1) The rationality of the principles by which we determine who is to rule us. (2) Tension between Hume's view that characteristics are virtues if they are useful, together with his own tendency to recommend things because they are useful, and his view that men are caused to favour some governments for ...
This chapter examines Hume's account of political allegiance. It argues that just as Hume's discussion of justice is intended primarily to refute.
Hume’s ethical thought grapples with questions about the relationship between morality and reason, the role of human emotion in thought and action, the nature of moral evaluation, human sociability, and what it means to live a virtuous life.
Feb 26, 2001 · Hume wrote forcefully and incisively on almost every central question in the philosophy of religion, contributing to ongoing debates about the reliability of reports of miracles, the immateriality and immortality of the soul, the morality of suicide, and the natural history of religion, among others.
