Opinion And Reform In Humes Political Philosophy
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Author |
: John B. Stewart |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2014-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400862856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140086285X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy by : John B. Stewart
"The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong," writes John Stewart. "Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles." In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against the background of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century history and thought, Hume emerges as a proponent not of conservatism but of reform. Stewart first presents the dilemma over morals in the modern natural-law school, then examines the new approach to moral and political philosophy adopted by Hume's precursors Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler. Illuminating Hume's explanation of the standards and rules that should govern private and public life, the author challenges interpretations of Hume's philosophy as conservative by demonstrating that he did not dismiss reason as a key factor determining right and wrong in moral and political contexts. Stewart goes on to show that Hume viewed private property, the market, contracts, and the rule of law as essential to genuine civilized society, and explores Hume's criticism of contemporary British beliefs concerning government, religion, commerce, international relations, and social structure. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author |
: John Benjamin Stewart |
Publisher |
: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691086265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691086262 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy by : John Benjamin Stewart
"The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong," writes John Stewart. "Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles." In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against the background of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century history and thought, Hume emerges as a proponent not of conservatism but of reform. Stewart first presents the dilemma over morals in the modern natural-law school, then examines the new approach to moral and political philosophy adopted by Hume's precursors Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler. Illuminating Hume's explanation of the standards and rules that should govern private and public life, the author challenges interpretations of Hume's philosophy as conservative by demonstrating that he did not dismiss reason as a key factor determining right and wrong in moral and political contexts. Stewart goes on to show that Hume viewed private property, the market, contracts, and the rule of law as essential to genuine civilized society, and explores Hume's criticism of contemporary British beliefs concerning government, religion, commerce, international relations, and social structure. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author |
: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015030038981 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Philosophical View of Reform by : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author |
: David Hume |
Publisher |
: Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages |
: 29 |
Release |
: 2020-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781465501424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1465501428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Of the Original Contract by : David Hume
As no party, in the present age, can well support itself without a philosophical or speculative system of principles annexed to its political or practical one, we accordingly find, that each of the factions into which this nation is divided has reared up a fabric of the former kind, in order to protect and cover that scheme of actions which it pursues. The people being commonly very rude builders, especially in this speculative way, and more especially still when actuated by party-zeal, it is natural to imagine that their workmanship must be a little unshapely, and discover evident marks of that violence and hurry in which it was raised. The one party, by tracing up government to the Deity, endeavoured to render it so sacred and inviolate, that it must be little less than sacrilege, however, tyrannical it may become, to touch or invade it in the smallest article. The other party, by founding government altogether on the consent of the people, suppose that there is a kind of original contract, by which the subjects have tacitly reserved the power of resisting their sovereign, whenever they find themselves aggrieved by that authority, with which they have, for certain purposes, voluntarily intrusted him. These are the speculative principles of the two parties, and these, too, are the practical consequences deduced from them.
Author |
: Ryu Susato |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2015-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748699810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748699813 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by : Ryu Susato
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 |
: David Hume |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:37399052 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by : David Hume
Author |
: Aaron Alexander Zubia |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2024-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268207793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268207798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Thought of David Hume by : Aaron Alexander Zubia
Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume’s philosophy gave rise to liberalism’s unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination. Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume has had an outsized impact on the political thinkers who came after him, from the nineteenth-century British Utilitarians to modern American social contract theorists. In this thorough and thoughtful new work, Aaron Alexander Zubia examines the forces that shaped Hume’s thinking within the broad context of intellectual history, with particular focus on the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and the skeptical tradition. Zubia argues that through Hume’s influence, Epicureanism—which elevates utility over moral truth—became the foundation of liberal political philosophy, which continues to dominate and limit political discourse today.
Author |
: Neil McArthur |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802093356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802093353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis David Hume's Political Theory by : Neil McArthur
David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government, collected and examined with a view to revealing the philosopher's coherent and persuasive theory of politics.
Author |
: Margaret Watkins |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2019-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108476270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108476279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays by : Margaret Watkins
Reveals the significance of Hume's Essays for philosophical questions about human life and its individual and social progress.
Author |
: David Hume |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1994-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0872201600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872201606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hume: Political Writings by : David Hume
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.