Reason and Conduct in Hume and his Predecessors

Can reason play a significant role in making moral distinctions and in generating moral precepts? In this book I attempt to provide Hume''s answers to these questions in the light of his employment of the ''Experimen­ tal Method'', his doctrine of perceptions, and his analysis of reason. In addition to this, attention is paid to some of Hume''s rationalist predeces­ sors - most notably, Samuel Cla...