Humes Philosophical Politics

Author : Andrew Sabl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168172
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's Politics written by Andrew Sabl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and may in fact facilitate--change and improvement in economic, social, and cultural life. He also identifies how Humean liberalism can offer a systematic alternative to neo-Kantian approaches to politics and liberal theory. At once scholarly and accessibly written, Hume's Politics builds bridges between political theory and political science. It treats issues of concern to both fields, including the prehistory of political coordination, the obstacles that must be overcome in order for citizens to see themselves as sharing common political interests, the close and counterintuitive relationship between governmental authority and civic allegiance, the strategic ethics of political crisis and constitutional change, and the ways in which the biases and injustices endemic to executive power can be corrected by legislative contestation and debate.

Author : Duncan Forbes
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521319973
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume's Philosophical Politics written by Duncan Forbes and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-01-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings in their original and revised versions, with full reference to the works of predecessors and contemporaries, including journalists, pamphleteers and historians. Hume's political thinking is presented in its historical context as an innovative, 'philosophical', empirically based system of politics for a radical post-revolutionary age, and a political education for parochial, backward-looking party men.

Author : Neil McArthur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638648
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Hume's Political Theory written by Neil McArthur and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government, collected and examined with a view to revealing the philosopher's coherent and persuasive theory of politics. Through close textual analysis, Neil McArthur suggests that the key to Hume's political theory lies in its distinction between barbarous and civilized government. Throughout the study, the author explores Hume's argument that a society's progress from barbarism to civilization depends on the legal and political system by which it is governed. Ultimately, McArthur demonstrates that the skepticism apparent in much of Hume's work does not necessarily tie him to a strict conservative ideology; rather, Hume's political theory is seen to emphasize many liberal virtues as well. Based on a new conception of Hume's political philosophy, this is a groundbreaking work and a welcome addition to the existing literature.

Author : Thomas W. Merrill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108705
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment written by Thomas W. Merrill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

Author : S. Yenor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137539593
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Hume’s Humanity written by S. Yenor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Yenor argues that David Hume's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated and that Hume's skepticism is a moment leading Hume to defend common life philosophy and the humane commercial republic. Gentle, humane virtues reflect the proper reaction to the complex mixture of human faculties that define the human condition.

Author : John B. Stewart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140086285X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy written by John B. Stewart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong," writes John Stewart. "Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles." In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against the background of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century history and thought, Hume emerges as a proponent not of conservatism but of reform. Stewart first presents the dilemma over morals in the modern natural-law school, then examines the new approach to moral and political philosophy adopted by Hume's precursors Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler. Illuminating Hume's explanation of the standards and rules that should govern private and public life, the author challenges interpretations of Hume's philosophy as conservative by demonstrating that he did not dismiss reason as a key factor determining right and wrong in moral and political contexts. Stewart goes on to show that Hume viewed private property, the market, contracts, and the rule of law as essential to genuine civilized society, and explores Hume's criticism of contemporary British beliefs concerning government, religion, commerce, international relations, and social structure. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439119938
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral and Political Philosophy written by David Hume and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of essays from famous Scottish philosopher David Hume, one of the most prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a close friend of Adam Smith. Hume's contributions to economics are found mostly in his Political Discourses (1752), which were later incorporated into his Essays (1758).

Author : Frederick G. Whelan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106310
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume and Machiavelli written by Frederick G. Whelan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are myriad references to Machiavelli's work within Hume's writing, a deeper connection between the two has never been fully explored. Whelan uncovers extensive Machiavellian dimensions throughout Hume's work, illustrating numerous parallels in both theorists' treatment of such issues as human nature, historical method, and political ethics. While at first such a comparison may be startling, Whelan argues convincingly that Hume's writing, commonly regarded as moderate and amiable, is indeed a locus of realist liberal political theory.

Author : Frederick J. Whelan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886678
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy written by Frederick J. Whelan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick G. Whelan relates Hume's political theory to the other parts of his philosophy, including his epistemology, his account of human nature, and his ethics, emphasizing the unity of the whole. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201606
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hume: Political Writings written by David Hume and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.