Leyendo a Hume retrospectivamente. La utilidad como fundamento de la moral.

Abstract

The tendency to see English utilitarianism as a fundamentally different enterprise from that of the so-called Scottish Enlightenment is mistaken. One must read Hume backwards (from the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals to the Treatise of Human Nature), which, despite Hume’s own advice, is rarely done by Hume scholars. In doing so, one more fully appreciates the importance of utility to Hume, and Bentham’s subsequent employment of Hume’s ideas.

DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/t.20.2.2421