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Hume on Weakness of Will

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Hume's philosophy and hair distribution Philosophical Ethics and Theory Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Abstract

Hume is a sceptic about practical reason. Reason is never the ultimate source of action or motivation. It merely works on existing desires. As Hume famously put it, ‘reason is, and ought only to be...

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1739A Treatise of Human Nature 1996The Sources of Normativity 1997Reasons and motivation 1977Skepticism about Weakness of Will 1999Intention and Weakness of Will 2002Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy 2008The Normativity of Instrumental Reason 1995Was Hume a Humean?

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