Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy.

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Stewart, John B

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:

text

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9781400862856
140086285X

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JC176.H9 S74 2014

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Argument before Hume: The Legalists' Dilemma -- 2. The Argument before Hume: Beginning a New Science -- 3. Morality Explained -- 4. Civil Society -- 5. Hume and Reform: Discovering True Principles -- 6. Changing the British Mind -- Index

Summary: ""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 natu.

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""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 natu.

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