Hume e as teorias morais vulgares

Which are the vulgar moral systems criticized by Hume in the famous Treatise’s is-ought passage? Which are their representatives? Is this essay, I will deal with some differences between Hume and Hutcheson that can illuminate an answer. Hume, contrary to Hutcheson, fought all kinds of divisions of human nature in natural and divine components. The concept of sympathy has an essential function in his approach. There are good evidences that the young Hume adopted in Treatise an open strategic criticism to all influential moral theories of his time: the contractual voluntarism, the rationalistic ethicists, and the religious conceptions under the influence of the dogmatic Scottish evangelism. In this way, Hume has got some distance from Hutcheson, yet his criticism included the approaches influenced by the natural law theories with reference in the divine providence. The is-ought passage signalizes this strategy. Nevertheless, his juvenile impetuosity resulted in a lot of personal misfortunes. It will make Hume to mitigate his philosophical aggressiveness in his maturity, adopting in his posterior writings a more balanced stance.