Essay Question is: What, according to Hume, is the role of reason in morality? Is Hume right about this?
Essential Reading : David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature [many editions], Book II, ch. 3, sect. 3; Book III, ch. 1, 1-2. You can find this text here : https://davidhume.org/texts/t/2/3/3
and https://davidhume.org/texts/t/3/1/full
Secondary Readings:
David Hume. Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals [many editions], esp. sections
I, II, VI, IX, and Appendix I, II. Link to text: https://davidhume.org/texts/m/
List of all the readings:
Essential Reading:
• David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature [many editions], Book II, ch. 3, sect. 3; Book
III, ch. 1, §. 1-2. Available online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705
Additional Readings:
• David Hume. Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals [many editions], esp. sections
I, II, VI, IX, and Appendix I, II.
• Rachel Cohon. Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication (Oxford University Press,
2008), Chs. 3 & 4.
• Barry Stroud. Hume (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), Chs. 7 & 8.
• Jerome B. Schneewind. ‘Hume: Virtue Naturalized’, ch. 17 of his The Invention of
Autonomy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
