¿POR QUÉ SON NECESARIAMENTE INÚTILES LAS VIRTUDES ESPECÍFICAMENTE RELIGIOSAS?

Abstract

The moral value of Religion could be doubtful from an utilitarian evaluative standpoint. J. S. Mill analysis about that question  in Utility of Religion is well-known.However Hume's similar study  in his Enquiry Concerning the Principies of Morals is not known in the same degree. There Hume writes that we consider something a virtue when (1) it is useful to others; (2) it is useful to the subject himself; (3) it is immediately agreeable to others; or ( 4) it is immediately agreeable to the person himself. But,  if everything which is useful or agreeable must be considered a virtue, onthe contrary everything useless or disagreeable must be a vice. That is the case with Cristian, monkish, or religious virtues, or «vices»?, in general terms.