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Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10724336
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C030926030
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Liberty Classics Series
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Law
ISBN : UCLA:31158009094342
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Essays
ISBN : OXFORD:503852587
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433070229707
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781465501486
THOSE who employ their pens on political subjects, free from party-rage, and party-prejudices, cultivate a science, which, of all others, contributes most to public utility, and even to the private satisfaction of those who addict themselves to the study of it. I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years; so that not only the art of reasoning is still imperfect in this science, as in all others, but we even want sufficient materials upon which we can reason. It is not fully known, what degree of refinement, either in virtue or vice, human nature is susceptible of; nor what may be expected of mankind from any great revolution in their education, customs, or principles. MACHIAVEL was certainly a great genius; but having confined his study to the furious and tyrannical governments of ancient times, or to the little disorderly principalities of ITALY, his reasonings especially upon monarchical government, have been found extremely defective; and there scarcely is any maxim in his prince, which subsequent experience has not entirely refuted. A weak prince,[1] says he, is incapable of receiving good counsel; for if he consult with several, he will not be able to choose among their different counsels. If he abandon himself to one, that minister may, perhaps, have capacity; but he will not long be a minister: He will be sure to dispossess his master, and place himself and his family upon the throne. I mention this, among many instances of the errors of that politician, proceeding, in a great measure, from his having lived in too early an age of the world, to be a good judge of political truth. Almost all the princes of EUROPE are at present governed by their ministers; and have been so for near two centuries; and yet no such event has ever happened, or can possibly happen.
Author : DAVID HUME
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789361157677
The 18th-century collection of philosophical articles "Essays" was penned by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. The essays' broad range of subjects reflects Hume's varied interests in politics, literature, and philosophy. "A Treatise of Human Nature," one of Hume's most important essays, examines human thinking and makes the case for a more sceptical and empirical philosophy. He promotes a study of human nature based on observation and experience, challenging conventional beliefs about causality, identity, and the nature of knowledge. Hume's writing is distinguished by its empiricism, wit, and clarity. His writings, which provide insights into human nature, the basis of knowledge, and the difficulties of moral and aesthetic judgments, continue to have an impact on the domains of philosophy and economics. The compilation offers a thorough understanding of Hume's contributions to philosophy and is still studied because of its significant influence on Western thought.
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674744028
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1748
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : OCLC:1063074559
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602075469
Author : David Hume,Thomas Hill Green,Thomas Hodge Grose
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297604202
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Author : David Hume
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330170423
Excerpt from Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, Vol. 1 of 2 Some people are subject to a certain delicacy of passion, which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively joy upon every prosperous event, as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with misfortunes and adversity. Favours and good offices easily engage their friendship; while the smallest injury provokes their resentment. Any honour or mark of distinction elevates them above measure; but they are as sensibly touched with contempt. People of this character have, no doubt, more lively enjoyments, as well as more pungent sorrows, than men of cool and sedate tempers: But, I believe, when every thing is balanced, there is no one, who would not rather be of the latter character, were he entirely master of his own disposition. Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal: And when a person, that has this sensibility of temper, meets with any misfortune, his sorrow or resentment takes entire possession of him, and deprives him of ail relish in the common occurrences of life; the right enjoyment of which forms the chief part of our happiness. Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains; so that a sensible temper must meet with fewer trials in the former way than in the latter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Ethics, Modern
ISBN : UCD:31175034930654
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616409616
In a final, short summary of his life and works, David Hume wrote My Own Life as he suffered from gastrointestinal issues that ultimately killed him. Despite his bleak prognosis, Hume remains lighthearted and inspirational throughout. He discusses his life growing up, his family relationships, and his desire to constantly improve his works and his reputation as an author. He confesses, "I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have... never suffered a moment's abatement of my spirits; insomuch that were I to name the period of my life which I should most choose to pass over again, I might be tempted to point to this later period." This short biography ends with a series of letters from Hume's close friend and fellow author Adam Smith to their publisher William Strahan, recounting Hume's death and giving a stirring eulogy in honor of their friend.
Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781681374635
Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth century until recent times, essays that grapple with issues that continue to shape history—revolution and war, racism, women’s rights, the status of the worker, the nature of citizenship, imperialism, violence and nonviolence, among them—and essays that have also been chosen as superlative examples of the power of written English to reshape our thoughts and the world. Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, George Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mohandas Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King, and Hannah Arendt are here, among others, along with a wide-ranging introduction.
