I. Introduction --;II. Hume's Predecessors --;III. Reason and Passions --;IV. Exciting and Justifying Reasons --;V. Hume's Critique of the Rationalists --;VI. The 'Is-Ought' Passage.
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I attempt to point out only what is central to Hume's ethics, and this I believe to be the first section of Book III, and to show how certain assumptions and conclusions of this section underlie the rest of Hume's considerations on ethics.