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Hume and justice
Title: Hume and justice
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1262 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hume and justice
In An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume speaks about the relationship between justice and utility and its connection to sentiment humanity and the ability to make moral distinctions. He first establishes the existence of justice in the world and then observes and analyzes its relationship to utility. Hume then makes the association between sentiment humanity and the ability to make moral judgements. He ultimately links this ability to the acquisition of justice. Hume’…showed first 75 words of 1262 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1262 total…reinforce all that he had stated. Hume draws the connection between justice and utility, then does likewise with sentiment humanity and the ability to make moral distinctions. He goes on from there to relate justice with sentiment humanity and then brings it all together by relating showing the relationship between the ability to make moral distinctions and justice. He comes full circle, allowing his arguments and theories to be that much more compact and meritorious.
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