Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

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  • David Hume
    In David Hume: Morals and historical writing

    The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a refinement of Hume’s thinking on morality, in which he views sympathy as the fact of human nature lying at the basis of all social life and personal happiness. Defining morality as those qualities that are approved (1)…

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