David Hume On Morals Politics And Society

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780300207149

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David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society by David Hume Pdf

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
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191610134

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David Hume by Russell Hardin Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Philosophy, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101003053442

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Essays Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume Pdf

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840125

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Hume: Moral Philosophy by David Hume Pdf

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 : David Hume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439119937

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Moral and Political Philosophy by David Hume Pdf

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,Stuart D. Warner,Donald W. Livingston
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872201600

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Hume: Political Writings by David Hume,Stuart D. Warner,Donald W. Livingston Pdf

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 : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605200576

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Essays by David Hume Pdf

As part of the tried and true model of informal essay writing, Hume began publishing his Essays: Moral, Political and Literary in 1741. The majority of these finely honed treatises fall into three distinct areas: political theory, economic theory and aesthetic theory. Interestingly, Hume's was motivated to produce a collection of informal essays given the poor public reception of his more formally written Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. He hoped that his work would be interesting not only to the educated man, but to the common man as well. He passionately argues that essays provide a forum for discussing his philosophy of "common life." DAVID HUME (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived in France from 1734 to 1737, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40). His additional philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).

Author : Esther Engels Kroeker,Willem Lemmens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108422871

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Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by Esther Engels Kroeker,Willem Lemmens Pdf

Examines each section of Hume's second Enquiry in detail and considers its place within Hume's philosophy as a whole.

Author : James Fieser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1843711176

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Early Responses to Hume's Moral, Literary & Political Writings by James Fieser Pdf

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.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9791041940387

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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume Pdf

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is the enquiry subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU). Thus, it is often referred to as "the second Enquiry". It was originally published in 1751, three years after the first Enquiry. Hume first discusses ethics in A Treatise of Human Nature (in Book 3 - "Of Morals"). He later extracted and expounded upon the ideas he proposed there in his second Enquiry. In his short autobiographical work, My Own Life (1776), Hume states that his second Enquiry is "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best."

Author : David Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015004769819

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Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought by David Miller Pdf

This book was written with three aims in mind. The first was to provide a reasonably concise account of Hume's social and political thought that might help students coming to it for the first time. The second aim was to say something about the relationship between philosophy and politics, with explicit attention to Hume, but implicit reference to a general issue. The third is to offer an integrated account of Hume's thought. The book accounts for the varying interpretation of the conservative and liberalist traditions by arguing that the distinction between liberalism and conservatism had little application in mid-18th-century Britain. Hume's ideology contained elements that we should now identify as conservative and liberal respectively, and so by selective emphasis it is possible to make him seem a thoroughbred conservative or liberal according to choice. These two problems the relationship between Hume's philosophy and his politics, and the ideological character of his thought are pursued through the first and second parts of the book respectively.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199808861

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David Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Author : Thomas W. Merrill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108707

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Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment by Thomas W. Merrill Pdf

This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

Author : John B. Stewart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400862856

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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy by John B. Stewart Pdf

"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 : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000815487

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The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Essays moral, political, and literary by David Hume Pdf