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Hume's sceptical Enlightenment /

A systematic reinterpretation of Hume's social and political thought as an Enlightenment thinker. The Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776) has often been regarded as a key Enlightenment thinker. However, his image has been long contested between those who consider him a con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Susato, Ryu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, Ã2015.
Series:Edinburgh studies in Scottish philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Conventions ; Series Editor's Introduction ; 1 Introduction ; 2 'The Empire of the Imagination': The Association of Ideas in Hume's Social Philosophy ; 3 'What is Established'?: Hume's Social Philosophy of Opinion ; 4 'Refinement' and 'Vicious Luxury': Hume's Nuanced Defence of Luxury ; 5 Taming 'the Tyranny of Priests': Hume's Advocacy of Religious Establishments ; 6 How 'To Refine the Democracy': Hume's Perfect Commonwealth as a Development of his Political Scien
  • 7 Human Society 'in Perpetual Flux': Hume's Pendulum Theory of Civilisation 8 'The Prince of Sceptics' and 'The Prince of Historians': Hume's Influence and Image in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index