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Although David Hume never produced a single comprehensive work that encapsulated his views on politics, his various writings address a broad range of topics of relevance to political philosophy. He critiques the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke, and he offers an alternative, evolutionary account of the origins of government.
- David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist | Oxford Academic
This book presents a new explication of David Hume's moral...
- David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist | Oxford Academic
Aug 23, 2022 · David Hume (b. 1711–d. 1776) was one of the central figures of what we now commonly call the Scottish Enlightenment. He lived and wrote during a time when questions about Scotland’s political future and its place both in Britain and in the world figured prominently.
Aug 1, 2007 · This book presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, the book 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.
- Russell Hardin
book 3 of A Treatise of Human Nature, and elsewhere, Hume presents the relatively simple principles he has found behind people’s complex moral judgments. Hardin interprets Hume’s goal and accomplishments in the most radical way imaginable. He says that Hume did not even hope to offer a moral theory,
Aug 1, 2007 · In a vocabulary of the first half of the eighteenth century, David Hume presents a theory of politics and government that still roughly fits with the intellectual developments of the late twentieth and the current century.
Oct 23, 2018 · 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.
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First, it aims to set forth a new understanding of the unity of Hume's practical and epistemological projects in developing his justifications for and the implications of his remarkable and underappreciated claim that humanity is the only sentiment on which moral system can be founded.
