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A Research Of Hume's Interests And Justice Theory

Posted on:2009-12-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Z ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245959246Subject:Ethics
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Justice is an eternal theme of human society. In the West Ethics history of development, justice of study and exploration has a very rich content. Hume interests of justice in Hume ethical thinking is an important part, and it is an important part of ethical thought in understanding Hume. Hume's intellectual and emotional premise and moral vaule is a profound theoretical basis for the concept of justice.As we all know, Hume's position in the history of philosophy is established by its epistemology. Accordingly, Hume's epistemology become main interests of researchers Hume. The limited study of Hume on Ethics, people's interest mainly concentrated in Hume's moral General, Against the interests of justice for Hume was of little concern.In view of this, this paper attempts to use main emotional line to do a sort out for Hume interests of justice, in order to fully understand Hume's ethical thought.The text is divided into four chapters.The first chapter mainly from historic Origin.His theory of justice just came from Western historic traditional and modern bourgeois thinkers on justice issues. Hume thought justice of as design of human own interests, the justice of the history of retrospectively. With any other justice thinkings of formation and development, interests of justice thinking has its emergence and development of historical context and origins.Chapter II Hume interests of justice based on the theory analysis. Hume of interests of justice from the feelings of human nature and morality of the proceeding. Hume thought that emotion was perceived as a reflection of the impression that it is the essence of joy or suffering, whether direct or indirect emotional feelings in addition to happiness or suffering would lose all its own. The impact on the behavior, feelings played a leading role and a supporting role can only be rational. The habit of emotion, imagination, time and space the impact from familiar to unfamiliar, by the close relations between the estranged from near and far, this decision is always people's feelings of self-biased. People sympathetic to the emotional communication with the possibility for the formation of a moral condition.Chapter III interests of justice Hume of main elements of analysis. Hume from the point of view of human nature human beings who must form a society can self-existence. As humanity's self-biased and the scarcity of property and possession of instability, social disintegration at any time was in danger of collapse. This is justice why is born, that is just the main significance lies in the maintenance of social order to ensure the survival of mankind. This is the basis of the interests of justice on Hume.Property to maintain stability is possible and necessary measures for human society, so Hume interests of justice embodied three stable property rules. Because of human self-preferences, the implementation of justice and judgement can only hope special institutions and personnel and prompte the Government's birth. Hume's system of virtue, justice was regarded as a virtue different from the natural human virtue by HumeChapter IV in three parts to explain Hume's impact on the interests of justice. Firstly, Hume's interests of justice impact on Western justice. Secondly, it is Marxism view of the interests of justice On Hume, mainly Marxism criticized justice and justice of Hume, on Marx how to transcend Hume of justice. Finally, Hume to the overall order entry points, on establishing a harmonious social society, based on reality, efforts from three areas to form a joint force, solid progress in social fairness and justice.This text studying ways: Firstly, the historic method and the method of combining logic. Hume is placed in the West Ethics history of development so as to logically demonstrate his ethical development of objectivity in this paper.At the same time he also was placed in the social and historical background to analyze, and reveal Hume's moral theory inherent contradictions of inevitability trying to unify historic and logic ways comprehensively to grasp Hume Ethics. Secondly, the macro and micro combination of methods. On the one hand, We grasp macro-Hume Ethics interests and justice Hume thinking of the history,impact to explore. on the other hand, understanding of the nature of ethics Hume key concept to define. For exampleon the definition of justice, the relationship between emotions and feelings and so on. At the micro research paper on the basis of macro-Hume Ethics grasp, in a bid to ensure the accuracy of the macro thesis. Thirdly, scientific method of comparison.For example, impact on Western justice, mainly compared with Hume utilitarian theory and justice of Rawls.Based on the perspective of Marxism theory to assess the interests of justice Hume of the value; Hume interests of justice and social justice in contemporary China construction of the enlightenment. This is innovational point of the text.
Keywords/Search Tags:Hume, Interests and Justice Theory, construction
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