DA ESCRITA DE ENSAIOS DE DAVID HUME E A EDUCAÇÃO MORAL
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David Hume. Filosofia moral. Educação moral.Abstract
A ideia de que os Ensaios Morais e Políticos, obra que começa a ser publicada um ano após o Tratado, devem conter um estímulo à virtude é controversa na literatura sobre Hume. Alguns ignoram ou negam que os Ensaios, ou qualquer outra obra de Hume, sirvam a esse propósito porque alegam que para Hume a motivação à virtude se dá por meio da simpatia entre os indivíduos e não por mecanismos de autocultivo, como na filosofia de Hutcheson. Há também comentadores que consideram que a moral prática de Addison oferece a Hume uma possibilidade de modelo alternativo de escrita, uma cujo estilo é comovente e que valoriza a participação social. No entanto, defendo, através da análise do ensaio humeano Da escrita de ensaios, que Hume pretende instruir moralmente a partir de uma nova maneira, através do comércio entre livros e conversas.
Palavras-chave: David Hume. Filosofia moral. Educação moral.
DAVID HUME'S OF ESSAY-WRITING AND MORAL EDUCATION
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The idea of the Essays, Moral and Political, a work which starts being published one year after the Treatise, must contain a stimulation to virtue is controversial among Hume literature. Some ignore or deny that the Essays, or any other Hume's work, aim that purpose because they claim that for Hume, the motivation for virtue happens through sympathy between individuals and not through self-cultivation mechanisms, as in Hutcheson's philosophy. There are also commentators who consider that Addison's practical morality offers Hume a possibility of an alternative writing model, one whose style is moving and which values social participation. However, I argue, through an analysis of the humean essay Of essay-writing, that Hume intends to instruct morally in a new manner, through the commerce between books and conversations.
Keywords: David Hume. Moral philosophy. Moral education.
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