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  title info:
    title: Hume's philosophy in historical perspective
  name:
    name part: Stewart, M. A. (Michael Alexander)
    name part: 1937-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Harris, James A.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author of introduction.
  name:
    name part: Savage, Ruth
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author of introduction.
  name:
    name part: Wright, John P.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and European philosophy more generally. Through meticulous research Stewart brings to life the circumstances by means of which we can get a deeper understanding of Hume's writings on the nature and reach of human reason, the foundation of morals and, especially, on the philosophy of religion. Stewart pays particular attention to Hume's intellectual development, beginning with his education at the College of Edinburgh, the writing of his Treatise of Human Nature, and his subsequent philosophical responses to criticisms of that book. He argues that Hume's skepticism set him at odds with the Christian Stoicism of Scottish contemporaries including that of Francis Hutcheson and shows that this conflict played a major role in his failure to obtain the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy Chair in 1745. Stewart's detailed study of the physical character of Hume's surviving manuscripts in Chapters 8 and 9 provides the best available dating of his early 'Essay on Modern Chivalry,' his 'Early Fragment on Evil' and the periods of composition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Other chapters compare Hume's theory of abstraction with that of Locke and Berkeley, provide the 17th and 18th century philosophical context of the central argument of his essay 'Of miracles,' and consider the 18th and 19th century reception of his writings in England and Ireland.
  note: M.A. Stewart ; edited with an introduction by James A. Harris, Ruth Savage, and John P. Wright.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hume, David
      name part: 1711-1776
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Scottish
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: B1498 .S823 2022
  classification: 192
  identifier: 0199547319
  identifier: 9780199547319
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211007
    record change date: 20230412134609.2
    record identifier: in00004662653