Mises Daily
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Henry Hazlitt
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[Excerpted from The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt.] 1. The Contribution of Hume David Hume, probably the greatest of British philosophers, made three major contributions to ethics. The first was the naming and consistent application of “the principle of utility.” The second was his account of sympathy. The third, no less important than