The Influence of Nominalism on Hume’s Conceptions of Causality and Justice
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Hume, metafísica, epistemologia, causalidade, justiçaAbstract
The article intends to present the relationship between the notions of causality and justice in Hume, seeking to show how both are based on custom. To this end, we will briefly analyze the possibility of reading nominalism as an ontological background to some of Hume’s theses, especially concerning the weight given to sensitive knowledge and the theory of imagination. Under this horizon, custom will appear as a key piece to understand the notion of cause. Finally, we will examine his theory of social relations that understands justice as an artificial virtue. The article will also show the existence of an Aristotelian framework matrix regarding these two themes as well as a content that we will risk to describe as “inverted Platonism”.
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