Hume's Philosophical PoliticsThis 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. |
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Contents
the natural | 3 |
A modern theory of Natural | 61 |
Political obligation for moderate men | 91 |
Social experience and the uniformity of human nature | 102 |
s Scientific and vulgar Whiggism | 125 |
Hume and | 193 |
The primacy of political institutions | 224 |
Philosophical History | 233 |
The limits of philosophical history | 308 |
Appendix | 324 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Hume's Philosophical Politics Cambridge paperback library |
| Author | Duncan Forbes |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | CUP Archive, 1985 |
| ISBN | 0521319978, 9780521319973 |
| Length | 338 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Social History Philosophy / Political Political Science / History & Theory |
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