Binmore’s Humeanism
Abstract
David Hume is quoted in Binmore’s book Natural Justice more than any other author, past or present, and throughout with a markedly positive attitude. It is argued that this affinity is reflected in many characteristic features of Binmore’s approach to fairness and social justice and especially in the central role motivational issues are made to play in his theory. It is further argued that Binmore shares with Hume not only important strengths but also certain weaknesses, among them a tendency to derive from the limited evidence of past history far-reaching statements on human nature and the conditions thereby imposed on social morality.
© 2006 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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- Binmore’s Egalitarianism
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- Justice as a Natural Phenomenon
- Fairness as Justice
- Genes, Memes and Justice
- The Genetics of Cooperation
- Binmore’s Humeanism
- Making Sense of Categorical Imperatives
- Justice: Political Not Natural
- Binmore’s Egalitarianism
- The Psychology of Justice
- Ken Binmore’s Natural Justice
- On Kenneth Binmore’s Natural Justice
- Binmore, Boundedly Rational
- Natural Justice: Response to Comments