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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a …, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well with intertemporal decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790780
Drawing on passages in Book II of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), in the Dissertation on the Passions (1757), and in some of the Essays (1777), this paper is built upon Hume's distinction between three alternative valuations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790949
decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way …, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals as well with decision under risk or uncertainty, as with intertemporal decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793170