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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Argument before Hume: The Legalists' Dilemma -- 2. The Argument before Hume: Beginning a New Science -- 3. Morality Explained -- 4. Civil Society -- 5. Hume and Reform: Discovering True Principles -- 6. Changing the British Mind -- Index |
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""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 natu |
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| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Et la morale politique
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Et la pensee politique et sociale
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Contributions in political ethics
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Contributions in political science
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400862856 |
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140086285X |
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