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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Overview

philosophical book by David Hume

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Philosophers who discussed An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

• David Hume
• J. Baird Callicott

Related ideas

• Philosophical realism
• Adam Smith
• Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
• Metaethics
• Anti-realism
• Normative ethics
• Psychological egoism
• J. L. Mackie
• Virtue ethics
• A Treatise of Human Nature
• Thomas Hobbes
• Empathy
• David Hume
• Ethical intuitionism

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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