Hume and the politics of enlightenment

"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." Wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Merrill, Thomas W. 1974- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press [2015]
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Hume's Socratism
  • 2. Calling philosophy down from the heavens
  • 3. Turning to the human things
  • 4. Investigating morality and politics
  • 5. Hume's cultural revolution: the Essays, part 1
  • 6. The education of the honest gentlemen: the Essays, part 2
  • Epilogue.