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Author : Thomas W. Merrill
Release : 2015-07-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment by : Thomas W. Merrill
Download or read book Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment written by Thomas W. Merrill. This book was released on 2015-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.
Author : Thomas W. Merrill
Release : 2015-07-23
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 596/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment by : Thomas W. Merrill
Download or read book Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment written by Thomas W. Merrill. This book was released on 2015-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck', David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, 'has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe'. With these words, Hume begins a memorable depiction of the crisis of philosophy and his turn to moral and political philosophy as the path forward. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas W. Merrill shows how Hume's turn is the core of his thought, linking Hume's metaphysical and philosophical crisis to the moral-political inquiries of his mature thought. Merrill shows how Hume's comparison of himself to Socrates in the introduction to the Treatise illuminates the dramatic structure and argument of the book as a whole, and he traces Hume's underappreciated argument about the political role of philosophy in the Essays.
Author : Thomas Westneat Merrill
Release : 2015
Genre : Political science
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Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment by : Thomas Westneat Merrill
Download or read book Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment written by Thomas Westneat Merrill. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck," David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, "has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe." With these words, Hume begins a memorable depiction of the crisis of philosophy and his turn to moral and political philosophy as the path forward. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas W. Merrill shows how Hume's turn is the core of his thought, linking Hume's metaphysical and philosophical crisis to the moral-political inquiries of his mature thought. Merrill shows how Hume's comparison of himself to Socrates in the introduction to the Treatise illuminates the dramatic structure and argument of the book as a whole, and he traces Hume's underappreciated argument about the political role of philosophy in the Essays"--
Author : Ryu Susato
Release : 2015-09-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by : Ryu Susato
Download or read book Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment written by Ryu Susato. This book was released on 2015-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.
Author : Margaret Schabas
Release : 2008
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 501/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis David Hume's Political Economy by : Margaret Schabas
Download or read book David Hume's Political Economy written by Margaret Schabas. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve new essays by distinguished scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of economics is one of the first book-length studies of Hume‘s political economy.
