Justiça como virtude artificial: Sobre o artifício humano na concepção de justiça de Hume

The paper considers the humean thesis according to which justice is an artificial virtue. Based on analysis of some conceptions presented in A Treatise Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Principles Morals, this text proposes that considered statement requires a qualification. notion artifice, context discussion about justice, should be understood light one fundamental relation between dispositions human species: reflection activity refraining passions. In sense, artificial, as related what taken can understood, somehow, natural, while specific species.