British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment by Stuart Brown

Author:Stuart Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

In both the Treatise and the Enquiry Hume devotes special attention to justice, claiming that in some way, or ways, it is significantly different from most of the other virtues. In the Treatise he tries to capture the difference by calling it an ‘artificial’ virtue, and the others ‘natural’. This proved to be an unfortunate choice of words, since it immediately associated him with the most feared moral sceptics, Hobbes and Mandeville, (see above ‘Scepticism and Self-love’) and he dropped it in the Enquiry. The question of whether justice is natural is there relegated to a footnote, and dismissed as merely verbal ([7.2], 307–8). But it is clear that this does not signify any change in his position with regard to justice.

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