¿por qué son necesariamente inútiles las virtudes específicamente religiosas?

• López Sastre, Gerardo ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

     Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

     Ciudad Real, España

     
• Localización: Telos: Revista iberoamericana de estudios utilitaristas, ISSN-e 2255-596X, ISSN 1132-0877, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 1992, págs. 1-5
• Idioma: español
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  • The moral value of Religion could be doubtful from an utilitarian evaluative standpoint. J. S. Mill analysis about that question  in Utility of Religion is well-known.However Hume's similar study  in his Enquiry Concerning the Principies of Morals is not known in the same degree. There Hume writes that we consider something a virtue when (1) it is useful to others; (2) it is useful to the subject himself; (3) it is immediately agreeable to others; or ( 4) it is immediately agreeable to the person himself. But,  if everything which is useful or agreeable must be considered a virtue, onthe contrary everything useless or disagreeable must be a vice. That is the case with Cristian, monkish, or religious virtues, or «vices»?, in general terms.