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Death and character : further reflections on Hume /

"Reviewing Annette Baier's 1995 work Moral Prejudices in the London Review of Books, Richard Rorty predicted that her work would be read hundreds of years hence; Baier's subsequent work has borne out such expectations, and this new book further extends her reach. Here she goes beyond...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baier, Annette (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acting in character
  • Impersonation, the very idea
  • Hume's excellent hypocrites
  • Hume's treatment of Oliver Cromwell
  • Hume and the conformity of Bishop Tunstal
  • Hume's deathbed reading: a tale of three letters
  • Hume's impressions and his other metaphors
  • The life and mortality of the mind
  • Hume's labyrinth
  • A voice, as from the next room
  • The energy in the cause
  • Hume's post-impressionism
  • Why Hume asked us not to read the Treatise
  • Conclusion: Hume's curriculum vitae: his "own life," written by himself.