Hume and the Prince of Thieves
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Hume’s readers love to hate the Sensible Knave. But hating the Knave is like hating a messenger with bad tidings. The message is that there is a gap, on Hume’s account, between our motivations and our obligations to just action. But it isn’t the Knave’s character that is to blame, for the same gap will be found if we turn our attention to alter egos, such as Robin Hood, the benevolent “Prince of Thieves.” Replacing self-interest with benevolence not only does not make the gap go away, it makes it harder to bridge. Of the two, it is benevolence, not self-interest, that actually poses the more serous challenge to Hume’s account of justice. Lythe and listin, gentilmen, That be of frebore blode: I shall you tel of a gode yeman, His name was Robyn Hode. * * * For he was a good outlawe, And dyde pore men moch god.1 Hume’s readers love to hate the “sensible knave.”2 But hating the knave is like hating a messenger with bad tidings. The message Hume’s sensible knave delivers is that neither our natural nor our moral obligations to justice can be relied upon to warrant our acting justly in each and every case that may arise. If this is cause
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