T 3.2.11.5
SBN 569 · cited directly by 2 papers
Shou'd it be ask'd, what proportion these two species of morality bear to each other? I wou'd answer, that this is a question, to which we can never give any precise answer; nor is it possible to reduce to numbers the proportion, which we ought to fix betwixt them. One may safely affirm, that this proportion finds itself, without any art or study of men; as we may observe on many other occasions. The practice of the world goes farther in teaching us the degrees of our duty, than the most subtile philosophy, which was ever yet invented. And this may serve as a convincing proof, that all men have an implicit notion of the foundation of those moral rules concerning natural and civil justice, and are sensible, that they arise merely from human conventions, and from the interest, which we have in the preservation of peace and order. For otherwise the diminution of the interest wou'd never produce a relaxation of the morality, and reconcile us more easily to any transgression of justice among princes and republics, than in the private commerce of one subject with another.
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| Ainslie 1995 | (T 569) T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t"; the artifices accordingly become less secure, as in the case of international justice (T 569). By the end of the … |
| (T 569) T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … with members of other societies lessens the need for respect of the artifices of justice (T 569). Why then do we vie… | |
| Garral 2007 | (T 568-9) T 3.2.11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … where Hume does seem to allow that the strength and force of a moral obligation may vary (T 568-9) or where the extent… |
| (T 569) T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …r just how much can be made from so little. Nor is it clear how talk of duty by "degrees" (T 569) might sit with resp… |