Search results
- 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.
People also ask
What did David Hume write about politics?
What was David Hume's moral and political theory?
Where did Hume develop his political thought?
What philosophies did Hume write?
Who was David Hume?
What did Hume believe?
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
Oct 23, 2018 · 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 ...
Feb 26, 2001 · Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (1711–1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist.
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.
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,
Feb 26, 2001 · Hume's “Advertisement” for the first two books of the Treatise promised subsequent works on morals, politics and criticism, but his Political Discourses, “Of Tragedy,” and “Of the Standard of Taste” are our only hints as to what he might have said about those topics.
