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Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 030020714X |
A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume's moral, political, and social philosophy. Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume's most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume's thought to contemporary subjects like reason's dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior. Perfect for classroom use, this volume is an invaluable companion for anyone studying an important thinker who advanced the development of moral philosophy, economics, cognitive science, and many other fields of the Western tradition.
Author | : Russell Hardin |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-08-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191610135 |
Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true. Hume argued for the psychological basis of such views. In particular, he argued for sympathy as the mirroring of the psychological sensations and emotions of others. By placing Hume in the developing tradition of social science, as a strong forerunner of his younger friend Adam Smith, Hardin demonstrates Hume's strong strategic sense, his nascent utilitarianism, his powerful theory of convention as a main source of social and political order, and his recognition of moral and political theory as a single enterprise.
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1439119937 |
A Collection of essays from famous Scottish philosopher David Hume, one of the most prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a close friend of Adam Smith. Hume's contributions to economics are found mostly in his Political Discourses (1752), which were later incorporated into his Essays (1758).
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1751 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-12-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1603840125 |
A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and many of his essays as well. This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, a leading moral philosopher and Hume scholar, has done a meticulous job of editing the texts and has provided an extensive Introduction that is at once accessible, accurate, and philosophically engaging, revealing the deep structure of Hume's moral philosophy. --Don Garrett, New York University
Author | : Esther Engels Kroeker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 110842287X |
Examines each section of Hume's second Enquiry in detail and considers its place within Hume's philosophy as a whole.
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780872201606 |
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Philosophy, English |
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Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 159605493X |
Sympathy, we shall allow, is much fainter than our concern for ourselves, and sympathy with persons remote from us much fainter than that with persons near and contiguous; but for this very reason it is necessary for us, in our calm judgments and discourse concerning the characters of men, to neglect all these differences and render our sentiments more public and social.-from "Why Utility Pleases"David Hume may well be the most significant philosopher ever to write in the English language: his arguments dramatically influenced both scientific and religious thinking, and much of what he wrote-particular concerning free will, political theory, and religion-still sounds startlingly modern. Hume himself called this "incomparably the best" of all his many writings. First published in 1751, it is an astonishing consideration of source and value of the feelings, thoughts, and actions we call "morality," and it is required reading for anyone who calls himself educated.AUTHOR BIO: Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist DAVID HUME (1711-1776) also wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and Enquiry's Concerning Human Understanding (1748).
Author | : James Fieser |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781843711179 |
In 1741, Hume published his Essays, Moral and Political, making a lasting impact on political, economic and aesthetic theory. This collection gathers together over seventy important early responses to Hume's moral theory and Essays, including articles by Adam Smith, James Beattie, Jeremy Bentham, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Malthus and Thomas Reid.