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One ground for suspicion of apparently sincere moral convictions is their link with some special interest of those who hold them. The questions cui bono and cui malo are appropriate questions to raise when we are searching for possible contaminants of conscience. Entrenched privilege, and fear of losing it, distorts one's moral sense.
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Animals can not disapprove, but they can complain and protest, at least until their vocal chords are cut to spare experimenters their protests.
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Hume describes (E, 235) as a fancied monster a man who has no manner of concern to his fellow-creatures but to regard the happiness and misery of all sensible beings with greater indifference than even two contiguous shades of the same color (ibid.). To limit one's concern to those sensible beings who are of one's own species is to be part-monster, but such monsters, alas, are not merely fancied ones.
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I think there is at least one moral theory of respectable lineage and good independent credentials that can accommodate such fairly minimal intuitions about us and animals. This is the theory Hume offers us. I do not consider Hume a forerunner of utilitarianism, and therefore what I shall go on to say in defense of Hume is not intended as a defense of any version of utilitarianism. I see Hume to be much closer to Aristotle than to Mill, to be offering us a theory about human virtues, not a theory about utility maximization and the duties that might involve.
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Annette Baier
Born:
October 11, 1929
Died:
November 2, 2012
(aged 83)
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Annette Claire Baier was a New Zealand philosopher and Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology.
Known for:
Moral prejudices (1994)
A progress of sentiments (1991)
Reflections On How We Live (2010)
Death and character (2008)
Postures of the mind (1985)
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