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Neven Leddy’s reading list
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Neven Leddy
University of Ottawa
Neven completed a doctorate in the history of ideas at Oxford University. His dissertation investigates the international and multidisciplinary context of Adam Smith’s moral philosophy. He teaches in the History Department and the Department of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa.
Greetings to U of O’s International Development and Global Studies students. Here is your electronic reading list for DVM2350B.
On this list you’ll find the readings for Weeks 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8.
Good hunting.
Week 3: Hutcheson’s political theory of the moral sense
Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004). Chapter: SECTION VII: A Deduction of some Complex moral Ideas, viz. of Obligation, and Right, Perfect, Imperfect, and External, Alienable, and Unalienable, from this moral Sense.
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Week 3: Hutcheson responds to Mandeville
This section is Hutcheson’s response to Mandeville’s account of social psychology.
Everyone should read this section, and then choose one of the two following.
Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004). Chapter: SECTION I: Of the Moral Sense by which we perceive Virtue and Vice, and approve or disapprove them in others.
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Week 3: Hutcheson’s social theory of the moral sense
Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004). Chapter: SECTION V: A further Confirmation that we have practical Dispositions to Virtue implanted in our Nature; with a further Explication ‖ 1 of our Instinct to Benevolence in its various Degrees‖; with the additional Motives of Interest, viz. Honour, Shame an
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Week 2: Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, 2 vols. With a Commentary Critical, Historical, and Explanatory by F.B. Kaye (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988). Vol. 1. Chapter: [1]The Grumbling Hive: o r, Knaves turn’d Honest. a
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