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Summary. This chapter focuses on how the Essays address narratives of political progress and decline. Hume identifies a common human tendency to value things simply because they are old, which I call the “antiquarian principle.”
Hume sees all governments as the result of a struggle between authority and liberty, with the best of them achieving a balance between the two by implementing systems of “general laws.” Hume’s cautious approach to social change may fairly be called conservative.
Oct 25, 2017 · A rich and suggestive summary of Hume’s political theory that pays attention to historical context and to Hume’s relations with earlier figures in the history of political thought. Provides a helpful synopsis of major trends in interpretation. Harris, James. “Hume.” In Routledge Companion to Ethics. Edited by John Skorupski.
Aug 23, 2022 · Hume developed his political thought most explicitly in political essays of the 1740s and 1750s, and in his multivolume History of England (1754–1762). Discussions of justice and allegiance to government, however, appeared first in Book 3 of A Treatise of Human Nature , and then again in revised form in An Enquiry concerning the Principles of ...
Oct 29, 2004 · Hume's position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist theory of the mind, is best known for asserting four theses: (1) Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is the “slave of the passions” (see Section 3) (2) Morals are not derived from reason (see Section 4).
Summary. N othing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
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This paper reveals connections between Hume's virtue ethics and his political philosophy by investigating two specific ques tions. First, is allegiance to government, as Hume understands it, a virtue of character like other virtues that Hume recognizes (such as justice and fidelity to promises)? Second, can Hume ac
