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    Objectivity and Perfection in Hume's Hedonism

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    2015-04
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    Dorsey, Dale
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    John Hopkins University Press
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    In this paper, I investigate David Hume’s theory of well-being or prudential value. That Hume was some sort of hedonist is typically taken for granted in discussions of his value theory, but I argue that Hume was a hedonist of pathbreaking sophistication. His hedonism intriguingly blends traditional hedonism with a form of perfectionism yielding a version of qualitative hedonism that not only solves puzzles surrounding Hume’s moral theory, but is interesting and important in its own right.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22187
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    https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2015.0028
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    Dorsey, D. (2015). Objectivity and Perfection in Hume’s Hedonism. Journal of the History of Philosophy 53(2), 245-270. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved December 2, 2016, from Project MUSE database.

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