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DATA : 09/08/2019
HORA: 08:00
LOCAL: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
TÍTULO:
Economy, Moral and Human Nature in Hume's Philosophy
PALAVRAS-CHAVES:
Empiricism, Economics, Morals, human nature, luxury, sympathy.
PÁGINAS: 120
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: História da Filosofia
RESUMO:
The philosophy of David Hume has as one of its characteristics the fact of unifying what was traditionally thought to belong to the scope of necessity and that which belonged to the realm of freedom. Hume thinks of Nature as a unity, and although his works have internal divisions that distinguish the matters between which is relative to the understanding, which is relative to the passions and which is relative to the morals, what we perceive is that these divisions only serve to show that the scope of disciplines can be integrated under the same approach, under the same explanatory principle, just as Newton unified heavens and Earth under universal gravitation. But his thought was reformulated, and what appeared in the third book on morals in the Treatise of Human Nature is dispersed in his later synthesis in appendices to the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the principles of Morals and in his Essays Moral, Political and Literary. In these texts we find his reflection on issues such as justice, property, contracts and a series of aspects related to Economics and Politics, understood under the treatment that he dispenses to luxury, refinement, excess and superfluous, as far as he considers them as objects at once of morals and passions. Hume’s moral sentimentalism imposes the consideration of these themes in the key of the consideration between private interest and public interest, the sovereign agency and the good of the Nation, in a reflection in which moral development is not dissociated from material prosperity. Thus, a more precise understanding of these texts promotes not only the opportunity to consider his philosophy as a totality that faces the empirical issues expressed in History, Politics and Economy, but allows us to discern the position of Hume in vivid debates of his time, in a moment when Economics was being formed as a scientific body of knowledge separated from Morals. His peculiar way of understanding human nature allowed him to formulate a series of economic considerations that do not dissociate them from moral reflection, since for Hume the passions are the human motive. Thus understood, his contributions carry the marks that characterize economics to this day: that of being a body of probable knowledge, founded rather on probability than on the certainty of internal laws known in the manner of ultimate causes; and to constitute an amalgam of descriptions and prescriptions, at the same time meant to explain economic phenomena and influence their future courses. Hume’s economic reflection thus provides elements to consider the various theoretical traditions in which contemporary Economics divides today, in as much as it points out that the operation of separation from Morals has not been definitively completed and may not be possible to do so. It poses itself as a possible synthesis; and although limited to some aspects and little served of precise calculation tools to guide political and economic actions, it already offers several elements that have continued to populate the theoretical universe of Economics, as for example the notions of utility, pleasure, excess and the importance of feelings for the explanation of economic phenomena.
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