David Hume’s ‘judicious spectator’

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Chapter 2 in Morality and Power, 2017, pp 14-22 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 2 traces the emergence of arguments in the eighteenth century that culminated in the rise of utilitarianism, the ethical foundation of a rationalistic economic science a century later. It does so by considering the work of the two giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith. The importance of considering the thought of long-dead eighteenth-century moral philosophers is to recognize the complex interrelations between the passions and the interests that existed before modern economics collapsed the distinction into a reductionist theory of rational choice that rules out the explanatory and policy pay-off resulting from an approach that embraces the pluralistic structure of human nature.

Keywords: Politics; and; Public; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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