Hume and the politics of enlightenment /
"Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck," David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, "has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe." Wit...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Hume's Socratism
- 2. Calling philosophy down from the heavens
- 3. Turning to the human things
- 4. Investigating morality and politics
- 5. Hume's cultural revolution: the Essays, part 1
- 6. The education of the honest gentlemen: the Essays, part 2
- Epilogue.