Sympathy and sociability in Hume's thought

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to show, in general terms, the main aspects of
Hume’s critic of those philosophers that he called by the epithet of “modern
epicureans”. Hobbes, and his supposed followers, according to Hume’s point of
view, made the mistake of choosing self love as the source and principle of all our
actions and judgments. After that, we intend to outline the central role of the
concept of sympathy in this critic and in the constitution of Hume’s moral theory.