Explain and assess Hume’s theory of the moral obligation to keep promises.

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Explain and assess Hume’s theory of the moral obligation to keep promises.

Description 2500 word essay Looking at reaching the top criteria on the marking rubric Required reading Treatise Book 3, part 2 Of justice and injustice Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, section 3 Of justice and appendix 3 Some farther considerations with regard to justice Further reading Theories of Justice B. Barry, University of California Press, 1989 Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation ed Richmond Campbell and Lanning Sowden, University of British Columbia Press, 1985 ‘Hume: norms and the obligation to be just’ S. Darwall in his The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’ Cambridge 1995 ‘David Hume: contractarian’ D. Gauthier, Moral Dealing Cornell Convention, D. Lewis, Blackwell 1969 Utilitarianism, JS Mill Chapter 5 Justice ed A. Ryan, OUP 1993 ‘Promising and obligation’ T Pink in Philosophical Perspectives 2009, edited by John Hawthorne and Jason Turner