The e-book has goals. First, to check the level and importance of the relationship among Hume's aesthetics and his ethical philosophy; and, moment, to think about how, in mild of the relationship, his ethical philosophy solutions valuable questions in ethics.

The first goal is learned in chapters 1-4. bankruptcy 1 examines Hume's essay "Of the traditional of flavor" to appreciate his look for a "standard" and the way this impacts the scope of his aesthetics. bankruptcy 2 establishes that he treats good looks in nature and paintings and ethical attractiveness as related in type, and applies the conclusions approximately his aesthetics to his ethical inspiration. bankruptcy three solves a puzzle to which this provides upward push, particularly, how contributors either settle for basic criteria that additionally they contravene during aesthetic and ethical job. bankruptcy four takes up the normative point of Hume's process by means of knowing ethical personality via his view of ethical beauty.

The moment goal of the e-book is discovered in chapters 5-7 by way of interesting 3 objections opposed to Hume's ethical philosophy. First, if morality is a right away response to the great thing about vice and the deformity of advantage, why is ideal advantage now not the final of each human person? moment, if morality comprises sentiments that come up within the topic, how can ethical judgments be target and declare common validity? And 3rd, if you can actually speak of "general criteria" governing behavior, how does one account for the variety of ethical structures and their swap over the years? the 1st is responded via exhibiting that like stable style in aesthetics, 'right style' in morals calls for that the feelings are proficient; the second one, via arguing opposed to the view that Hume is a subjectivist and a relativist, and the 3rd (chapter 6), through exhibiting that his strategy incorporates a view of development left untouched via any own prejudices Hume himself may possibly harbor. The e-book concludes in bankruptcy 7 by means of displaying how Hume's view of philosophy impacts the scope of any normative ethics.