PARADIGMA ETICĂ A SENTIMENTULUI LA DAVID HUME

Abstract

David Hume established himself as an empiricist philosopher who argued for the primacy of sensibility in human life and in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. His ethical appoach fits into this empiricist pattern by postulating the preeminence of sensibility over reason and by assigning a primordial and normative role to moral feeling. Relative to this distinctive principle of Humean philosophy, the ethical paradigm of sentiment is considered a normal and optimistic one, in antithesis to the skeptical metaphysical paradigm of sentiment.