Psicología moral y concepción multidimensional de la subjetividad en la filosofía de Hume: el caso del sujeto moral

Abstract

Among the commentators who problematize the issue of the moral self in David Hume's thought, Pauline Chazan (1998) has argued for the existence of some tensions between the passionate self that Hume thematizes in Book 2 of A Treatise of Human Nature and how this self subsequently gets in the moral domain, which Hume elaborated in Book 3. This paper offers an innovative reading of Hume's theory of subjectivity, which allows reconsidering and resolving this apparent conflict between the passionate self and the moral self. To do so, it develops a multidimensional conception of the subjectivity allowing to conceive the formation of the self as a complex and gradual process involving simultaneously different levels that, even though may be studied separately, are closely connected.