Author: Mark G. SpencerPublisher: Rochester Studies in Philosoph
ISBN: 9781580463447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A thorough examination of the influence of David Hume's work early American political thought.
David Hume and the Eighteenth Century British Thought
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
Author: Mark G. SpencerPublisher: Rochester Studies in Philosoph
ISBN: 9781580463447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A thorough examination of the influence of David Hume's work early American political thought.
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century: The philosophical basis ; The starting-point of deism ; Constructive deism ; Critical deism ; Butler's analogy ; David Hume ; William Warburton ; The later theology
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, English
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
David Hume and the Eighteenth Century British Thought
Author: 中央大学. 図書館David Hume
Author: Nicholas T. PhillipsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this book--a new and revised edition of his 1989 classic--Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics. As a philosopher, Hume sought a way of seeing the world and pursuing happiness independently of a belief in God. His groundbreaking approach applied the same outlook to Britain's history, showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions. In this analysis of Hume's life and works, from his university days in Edinburgh to the rapturous reception of his "History of England," Nicholas Phillipson reveals the gradual process by which one of the greatest Western philosophers turned himself into one of the greatest historians of Britain. In doing so, he shows us how revolutionary Hume was, and why his ideas still matter today.
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century
Author: James A. HarrisPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191502685
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France, in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later. This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in the context provided by a host of writers less well known today. The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the important aspects of its subject matter. There is also an introductory section, with chapters on the general character of philosophizing in eighteenth-century Britain, and a concluding section on the important question of the relation at this time between philosophy and religion. The authors of the chapters are experts in their fields. They include philosophers, historians, political theorists, and literary critics, and they teach in colleges and universities in Britain, in Europe, and in North America.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Author: Mark GoldiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521374224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
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Hume
Author: James A. HarrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521837251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This is the first intellectual biography of the British philosopher and historian David Hume.
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Author: Frederick G. WhelanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317573803
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century and hence on what is usually taken to be the core period of the Enlightenment, a somewhat problematic term. Covering topics such as property, contract and resistance theory, religious establishments, the law of nations, the balance of power, demography, and the role of unintended consequences in social life, Frederick G. Whelan convincingly conveys the diversity--and creativity--of the intellectual engagements of even a limited set of Enlightenment thinkers in contrast to dismissive attitudes, in some quarters, toward the Enlightenment and its supposed unitary project. Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2 contains six in-depth studies of eighteenth-century political thought, including both normative issues and examples of Enlightenment social science, including international relations and law, the problem of double standards, political economy, demography, and the causes of imperial decline. The central figure is David Hume, with substantial attention to William Robertson, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Malthus, and others.
Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Alexander DickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314530
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.